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...

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Publicado en:Neurological Sciences Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 33 - 36
Autores principales: Cancelli I, Merlino G, Serafini A, Valente M, Gigli GL, Cancelli, Iacopo, Merlino, Giovanni, Serafini, Anna, Valente, Mariarosaria, Gigli, Gian Luigi
Formato: case study Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2008
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