Healio

Cryptococcal meningitis causes 15% of AIDS–related deaths globally

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Healio

IDSA releases updated guidelines for the management of cryptococcal disease

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Scientific American

Spread of Deadly Cryptococcal Disease in U.S. Northwest Linked to Global Warming

A deadly infectious disease once thought to be exclusively tropical has gained a toehold in the Pacific Northwest, and health experts suspect climate change is partially to blame. Last week the CDC ...
EurekAlert!

New treatment for cryptococcal meningitis enters Phase II trial as global HIV funding cuts threaten to cause a massive increase in advanced HIV disease

Dar es Salaam / Lilongwe / Geneva — 15 April 2025 — A new, easier-to-administer and patient-friendly sustained-release formulation of flucytosine, a medicine used to treat cryptococcal meningitis, has ...
Aidsmap

Watch for cryptococcal disease in children with HIV, South African doctors warn

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JSTOR Daily

Unrecognized Pretransplant and Donor-Derived Cryptococcal Disease in Organ Transplant Recipients

Background. Cryptococcosis occurring ≤30 days after transplantation is an unusual event, and its characteristics are not known. Methods. Patients included 175 solid-organ transplant (SOT) recipients ...
Aidsmap

Screening ART patients for cryptococcal disease is cost effective and will save lives

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Medscape

Cryptococcal Disease Moves From the Tropics to the Pacific Northwest

November 5, 2010 (Vancouver, British Columbia) — Cryptococcus gattii (Cg), a fungus that until recently had been associated mainly with tropical and subtropical regions, has appeared in the American ...
NPR

A $2 Test Might Have Helped This Man With HIV Avoid Daily Spinal Taps

His body wasted from AIDS, Fred Muzaya sat up in his bed on a January morning at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, and faintly smiled at a doctor he couldn't see. A former taxi driver, Muzaya, 26, ...
Nature

Disseminated cryptococcal infection in allogeneic stem cell transplant patients: a rare cause of acute kidney injury

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can be lifesaving for some of the deadliest hematologic diseases. However, immunosuppression, polypharmacy and risk of infectious complications ...
The Conversation

People with HIV are still dying from a treatable, but neglected, disease: all it needs is a plan

Gilles van Cutsem is affiliated with Doctors Without Borders, a member of the Cryptococcal Meningitis Advocacy Group, and Chair of the Patient Advisory Committee of the slow release flucytosine ...
AllAfrica.com

Africa: New Treatment For Cryptococcal Meningitis Enters Phase II Trial As Global HIV Funding Cuts Threaten To Cause A Massive Increase In Advanced HIV Disease

Cryptococcal meningitis, the second-leading cause of HIV-related deaths, is expected to rise as access to care weakens and advanced HIV disease (previously called AIDS) increases. A new, ...