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Prognosis of cryptococcal infection is poor with a 3-month mortality rate of meningoencephalitis approximates 20%. | Prognosis of cryptococcal infection is poor with a 3-month mortality rate of meningoencephalitis approximates 20%. In HIV positive patients without treatment, mortality rates of 100% have been reported within 2 weeks after clinical presentation. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Prognosis of cryptococcal infection is poor with a 3-month mortality rate of meningoencephalitis approximates 20%. In HIV positive patients without treatment, mortality rates of 100% have been reported within 2 weeks after clinical presentation.