Vertebro-cerebral cryptococcosis mimicking tuberculosis: A diagnostic dilemma in countries with high burden of tuberculosis

Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 245-248

  Gupta, R ^a   Kushwaha, S ^a   Behera, S ^a   Jaiswal, A ^a   Thakur, R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus; disseminated cryptococcosis; vertebral tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CYCLOSERINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; FLUCONAZOLE; ISONIAZID; LINEZOLID; MOXIFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUBERCULOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG EFFICACY; FEVER; FUNGUS CULTURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TOXIC HEPATITIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; VERTEBROCEREBRAL CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; VERTEBROCEREBRAL TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84862586734     PISSN: 02550857     EISSN: 19983646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0255-0857.96715     Document Type: Article

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