A retrospective study of clinical characteristics, outcome and prognostic factors of patients with cryptococcosis was undertaken in intensive care units (ICUs) of a medical centre for the period ...

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can be lifesaving for some of the deadliest hematologic diseases. However, immunosuppression, polypharmacy and risk of infectious complications ...

A previously healthy 30-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 2-week history of dyspnea, dry cough and skin lesions. The patient has sex with men. He immigrated from Thailand to ...

Human-to-human transmission of cryptococcosis is very rare. 1–3 An 80-year-old man (Patient A) was hospitalized because of pulmonary squamous-cell carcinoma. He received mechanical ventilation and was ...

We report a case of presumed cryptococcal endophthalmitis that occurred in a patient with severe disseminated cryptococcosis and AIDS. Multiple small, spherical lesions appeared bilaterally on the ...

Patients with solid organ transplants are at risk of invasive cryptococcal infection because of long-term immunosuppressive therapy. There has been a shift in the epidemiology of invasive cryptococcal ...

In a transplant patient, cutaneous lesions may be the sign of trivial mycotic disease or the marker of disseminated, potentially lethal fungal illness. Thus, attention should be given to their early ...