Change in treatment regime for cryptococcal meningitis may be needed
The most cost-effective treatment for cryptococcal meningitis (a serious infection of the brain membranes, usually in people with AIDS or other immune system deficiencies) is different to that...
View ArticleCombo therapy helps knock out fungal meningitis
(HealthDay)— A drug regimen containing two powerful antifungal medicines—amphotericin B and flucytosine—reduced the risk of dying from cryptococcal meningitis by 40 percent compared to treatment with...
View ArticleCanada, Uganda test drug to treat brain disease
Canada is funding testing in Uganda of a popular off-patent antidepressant drug to fight a fungal brain disease that claims more than half a million lives in sub-Saharan Africa every year.
View ArticleScientists discover how a killer fungus attacks HIV patients
Researchers have discovered that a type of white blood cell carries a deadly fungus into the brains of HIV positive patients, causing meningitis which kills more than 600,000 people a year.
View ArticleNew approach to HIV management in Tanzania and Zambia reduces deaths by...
A new approach to care for patients with advanced HIV in Tanzania and Zambia, combining community support and screening for a type of meningitis, has reduced deaths by 28%.
View ArticleMeningitis model shows infection's sci-fi-worthy creep into the brain
Scientists at Duke Medicine are using transparent fish to watch in real time as Cryptococcal meningitis takes over the brain. The resulting images are worthy of a sci-fi movie teaser, but could be...
View ArticleAntineoplastic agent obscures diagnosis of fungal meningitis
(HealthDay)—A case of cryptococcal meningitis with false-negative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) culture results following receipt of capecitabine has been described in a case report published in the...
View ArticleAngina drug could inform a new strategy to fight cryptococcosis
A drug, more commonly used in the treatment of angina, could be the focus of a new strategy in fighting the fatal fungal infection cryptococcosis.
View ArticleExperts aim to slash the number of deaths from killer fungal disease in Africa
Experts aim to halve the number of deaths from cryptococcal meningitis by changing drug treatment programmes after the results of a new medical trial.
View ArticleCryptococcal meningitis should be classified as a neglected tropical disease,...
Crytococcal meningitis is a deadly invasive fungal infection which affects hundreds of thousands of HIV patients in the late stage of their disease every year.
View ArticleDeadly cryptococcal fungi found in public spaces in South Africa
Large populations of potentially deadly cryptococcal fungi have been found on woody debris collected from old trees in two public areas in the centre of Cape Town and the Northern Cape, South Africa.
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