Human Immunodefeciency Virus Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis At A Tertiary Care Centre: Diagnostic Tools And Antifungal Susceptibility Testing

• Published in: Journal of clinical and diagnostic research Vol. 7; no. 8; pp. 1623 - 1625
• Main Author: Munivenkataswamy, Rashmi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: India JCDR Research and Publications (P) Limited 01.08.2013; JCDR Research and Publications Private Limited
• Subjects: cryptococcal meningitis; human immunodefeciency virus; latex agglutination; minimum inhibitory concentration; Original; Latex agglutination; Cryptococcal meningitis; Human Immunodefeciency Virus; Minimum inhibitory concentration

Cryptococcal meningitis has emerged as a leading cause of the infectious morbidity and mortality in HIV sero-reactive subjects and it is the second most common cause of the opportunistic neuroinfections in it. As this is a indistinguishable from other causes of meningitis, its early diagnosis is the...