Sarcoidosis as risk factor for cryptococcal meningitis in an apparently immunocompetent patient.
Cryptoccus neoformans meningitis (CNM) is an opportunistic infection that typically occurs in immunosuppressed patients. Subjects affected by sarcoidosis, a systemic granulomatous disease of unknown cause, are predisposed to CNM because of the impairment of cell-mediated immunity and because of the...
| Publicado en: | Neurological Sciences Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 33 - 36 |
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| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , |
| Formato: | case study Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Feb2008
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