Relationship of human immunodeficiency virus viral load in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma in patients co-infected with cryptococcal meningitis

CC Chang, R Kangethe, S Omarjee… - Open forum …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… CNS HIV-1 viral load may predict, … viral loads compared with those monoinfected with HIV
[8]. Another found no correlation between CSF cryptococcal antigen and CSF HIV viral load [9]. …

Variables that influence HIV-1 cerebrospinal fluid viral load in cryptococcal meningitis: a linear regression analysis

DM Cecchini, AM Cañizal, H Rojas… - Journal of the …, 2009 - Springer
… The present study shows that CSF HIV-1 viral load in patients with cryptococcal meningitis
is positively correlated with CSF leukocyte count, and not with plasma viral load. The CSF …

Cryptococcal meningitis

T Bicanic, TS Harrison - British medical bulletin, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… patients with cryptococcal meningitis showed a trend towards improved mycological and
clinical success, and was well tolerated with no adverse effects on CD4 count or HIV viral load. …

Prognosis and management of cryptococcal meningitis in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection

J Rhein, DR Boulware - Neurobehavioral HIV Medicine, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
… 6 months apart), an undetectable viral load, and more than one year of antifungal treatment.In
resource-limited settings, where routine viral load monitoring is not available, the World …

[HTML][HTML] Comparisons of clinical features and mortality of cryptococcal meningitis between patients with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection

YC Lee, JT Wang, HY Sun, YC Chen - Journal of Microbiology, Immunology …, 2011 - Elsevier
… About 68.8% (22 of 32) of these HIV-positive patients had plasma HIV viral load above 10
5 copies/mL. The all-cause mortality rate on Day 30 was 23.9% (21 deaths) and on Day 90 …

Global burden of disease of HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis: an updated analysis

R Rajasingham, RM Smith, BJ Park… - The Lancet infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Cryptococcal antigenaemia prevalence by country was derived from 46 studies globally.
Based on cryptococcal … of people who are developing and dying from cryptococcal meningitis. …

Cryptococcal meningitis

L Tugume, K Ssebambulidde, J Kasibante… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii species complexes cause meningoencephalitis
with high fatality rates and considerable morbidity, particularly in persons with …

High cryptococcal antigen titers in blood are predictive of subclinical cryptococcal meningitis among human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients

RM Wake, E Britz, C Sriruttan, I Rukasha… - Clinical Infectious …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Cryptococcal antigenemia is strongly predictive of subsequent cryptococcal meningitis in
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–infected adults with CD4 + T-lymphocyte (CD4 cell) …

Cryptococcal meningitis: diagnosis and management update

M Abassi, DR Boulware, J Rhein - Current tropical medicine reports, 2015 - Springer
… When HIV viral load testing is unavailable, the WHO recommends continuation of maintenance
therapy for 1 year and discontinuation if CD4 counts are >200 cells/μL [35]. Fluconazole …

Cerebrospinal fluid HIV-1 viral load during treatment of cryptococcal meningitis

AE Brouwer, P Teparrukkul… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
… 1 VL during treatment of cryptococcal meningitis, we … cryptococcal meningitis in 63 Thai
patients enrolled in a trial of amphotericin B-based therapy. Baseline cryptococcal organism load