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==Screening== | ==Screening== | ||
Screening is recommended in some types of fungal meningitis. | Screening is recommended in some types of fungal meningitis. | ||
Cryptococcal meningitis commonly affects patients with CD4 count are ≤ 100 cells/μl. It is responsible for major cause of mortality and morbidity in HIV individuals. It is recommended that patients with CD4 counts ≤ 100 cells/μl, should have | Cryptococcal meningitis commonly affects patients with CD4 count are ≤ 100 cells/μl. It is responsible for major cause of mortality and morbidity in HIV individuals. It is recommended that patients with CD4 counts ≤ 100 cells/μl, should have routine Cryptococcal Antigen screening. Patients with posivtive result are offered pre-emptive anti-fungal therapy.<ref name="pmid28166254">{{cite journal| author=Cassim N, Schnippel K, Coetzee LM, Glencross DK| title=Establishing a cost-per-result of laboratory-based, reflex Cryptococcal antigenaemia screening (CrAg) in HIV+ patients with CD4 counts less than 100 cells/μl using a Lateral Flow Assay (LFA) at a typical busy CD4 laboratory in South Africa. | journal=PLoS One | year= 2017 | volume= 12 | issue= 2 | pages= e0171675 | pmid=28166254 | doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0171675 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=28166254 }} </ref><ref name="pmid28134711">{{cite journal| author=Greene G, Sriruttan C, Le T, Chiller T, Govender NP| title=Looking for fungi in all the right places: screening for cryptococcal disease and other AIDS-related mycoses among patients with advanced HIV disease. | journal=Curr Opin HIV AIDS | year= 2017 | volume= 12 | issue= 2 | pages= 139-147 | pmid=28134711 | doi=10.1097/COH.0000000000000347 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=28134711 }} </ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Prince Tano Djan, BSc, MBChB [2]
Overview
Screening
Screening is recommended in some types of fungal meningitis. Cryptococcal meningitis commonly affects patients with CD4 count are ≤ 100 cells/μl. It is responsible for major cause of mortality and morbidity in HIV individuals. It is recommended that patients with CD4 counts ≤ 100 cells/μl, should have routine Cryptococcal Antigen screening. Patients with posivtive result are offered pre-emptive anti-fungal therapy.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Cassim N, Schnippel K, Coetzee LM, Glencross DK (2017). "Establishing a cost-per-result of laboratory-based, reflex Cryptococcal antigenaemia screening (CrAg) in HIV+ patients with CD4 counts less than 100 cells/μl using a Lateral Flow Assay (LFA) at a typical busy CD4 laboratory in South Africa". PLoS One. 12 (2): e0171675. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0171675. PMID 28166254.
- ↑ Greene G, Sriruttan C, Le T, Chiller T, Govender NP (2017). "Looking for fungi in all the right places: screening for cryptococcal disease and other AIDS-related mycoses among patients with advanced HIV disease". Curr Opin HIV AIDS. 12 (2): 139–147. doi:10.1097/COH.0000000000000347. PMID 28134711.