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   Profile and acute mortality outcome of patients admitted with cryptococcal meningitis to an urban district hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: BO Adeyemi --- Department of Family Medicine, South Africa A Ross --- Department of Family Medicine, South Africa

   Background: Cryptococcal meningitis (CCM) is one of the leading causes of early mortality in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. This study was part of a clinical audit aimed at improving care for patients with CCM at an urban district hospital...

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   Cryptococcal osteomyelitis in a clinically immune-competent child

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: GB Firth --- Orthopaedic Surgery Division, South Africa T Ntanjana --- Orthopaedic Surgery Division, South Africa T Law --- Division of Microbiology, South Africa

   Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungus which rarely infects immune competent children. It commonly affects the lung and central nervous system in immunodeficient individuals. Osteomyelitis is extremely rare and this case report presents an eight-year-old immune competent boy with a tibial...

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   Diagnostic and mortality outcomes in a cohort of adult meningitis suspects in KwaZulu-Natal

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: Onke Nonkala --- Department of Internal Medicine, South Africa Colleen Aldous --- School of Clinical Medicine, South Africa Douglas Wilson --- Department of Internal Medicine, South Africa

   Background: The clinical value of lumbar puncture (LP) in settings with a high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence has not been well defined.

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