[HTML][HTML] Lateral flow assay for cryptococcal antigen: an important advance to improve the continuum of HIV care and reduce cryptococcal meningitis-related mortality

JE Vidal, DR Boulware - Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de …, 2015 - SciELO Brasil
SUMMARY AIDS-related cryptococcal meningitis continues to cause a substantial burden of
death in low and middle income countries. The diagnostic use for detection of cryptococcal …

Increased antifungal drug resistance in clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans in Uganda

KD Smith, B Achan, KH Hullsiek… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cryptococcal antigen screening is recommended among people living with AIDS when
entering HIV care with a CD4 count of< 100 cells/μl, and preemptive fluconazole …

[HTML][HTML] HIV-related opportunistic infections are still relevant in 2015

H Masur - Topics in antiviral medicine, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The incidence of HIV-related opportunistic infections (OIs) has declined in the United States
with the increasing use of effective antiretroviral therapy for the treatment of HIV infection …

Six-month outcomes of HIV-infected patients given short-course fluconazole therapy for asymptomatic cryptococcal antigenemia

SW Kapoor, KA Magambo, SE Kalluvya, DW Fitzgerald… - Aids, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Objective: In HIV-infected adults in sub-Saharan Africa, asymptomatic cryptococcal
antigenemia at the time of antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation is associated with more than …

HIV care: ART adherence support and cryptococcal screening

R Rajasingham, DR Boulware - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
6 Lees CC, Marlow N, van Wassenaer-Leemhuis A, et al, for the TRUFFLE study group. 2
year neurodevelopmental and intermediate perinatal outcomes in infants with very preterm …

[PDF][PDF] Poor specificity of urinary cryptococcal antigen testing: Reply to Drain et al. Prevalence of cryptococcal antigenuria at initial HIV diagnosis in KwaZulu-Natal

MW Tenforde, N Longley, DB Meya, DR Boulware… - HIV Med, 2015 - academia.edu
We read with interest the recent article by Drain et al. on screening for cryptococcal
antigenuria in patients newly diagnosed with HIV infection [1]. As the authors state, HIV …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a scalable HIV cure research agenda: the role of co-infections

I Sereti, GK Folkers, G Meintjes, DR Boulware - Journal of virus eradication, 2015 - Elsevier
The development of a cure is among the foremost contemporary priorities in the field of HIV
research. The science that underpins a potential HIV cure should be generalisable to the …

Cryptococcal antigen screening and treatment: the current state of global screening programs to prevent death from cryptococcal infection

G Greene, S Vallabhaneni, JH Chung… - Current Fungal Infection …, 2015 - Springer
Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is the leading cause of death among people with AIDS. The
World Health Organization issued a conditional recommendation in 2011 for countries to …