Prospective cohort of AIDS patients screened for cryptococcal antigenaemia, pre-emptively treated and followed in Brazil.
Moara Alves Santa Bárbara BorgesJoão Alves de Araújo FilhoBruno de Jesus Silva OliveiraIsabela Silvério MoreiraVanessa Valadares de PaulaAngélica Lima de BastosRenata de Bastos Ascenço SoaresMarília Dalva TurchiPublished in: PloS one (2019)
CrAg screening for severely immunosuppressed PLHAs in Brazil yielded a prevalence of 7.9%. No difference was found in the prevalence of CrAg stratified by CD4 values (CD4 <100 versus CD4 101-199 cells/μl). No clinical nor laboratory factors predicted CrAg positivity, corroborating the need for the implementation of universal CrAg screening for PLHAs with CD4 <200 cells/μl in similar settings.