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Invasive fungal infection by Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii with bone marrow and meningeal involvement in a HIV-infected patient: a case report.

Hareton Teixeira VechiRaquel Cordeiro TheodoroAndrea Lima de OliveiraRonald Muryellison Oliveira da Silva GomesRodolfo Daniel de Almeida SoaresMunya Gandour FreireMônica Baumgardt Bay
Published in: BMC infectious diseases (2019)
Bone marrow infection caused by Cryptococcus neoformans is a rare presentation of cryptococcosis. The cryptococcal infection should be included for differential diagnosis in HIV-infected patients with fever and cytopenias, especially when CD4+ T lymphocytes count is below 100 cells/μL.
Keyphrases
  • hiv infected
  • bone marrow
  • antiretroviral therapy
  • mesenchymal stem cells
  • case report
  • human immunodeficiency virus
  • oxidative stress
  • signaling pathway
  • nk cells