cryptococcal antigen
Comparison of the PREMIER cryptococcal antigen enzyme immunoassay and the latex agglutination assay for detection of cryptococcal antigens
... A new enzyme immunoassay EIA, PREMIER Cryptococcal Antigen, was compared with latex agglutination LA for the detection and quantitation of circulating capsular polysaccharide antigen fro[r] ...
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Monoclonal Antibodies Specific for Immunorecessive Epitopes of Glucuronoxylomannan, the Major Capsular Polysaccharide of Cryptococcus neoformans, Reduce Serotype Bias in an Immunoassay for Cryptococcal Antigen
... Latex-Cryptococcus antigen test (Immuno- Mycologics, Inc.; lot 159CU), cryptococcal antigen latex agglutination system (CALAS; Meridian Bioscience, ...Premier cryptococcal antigen ...
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Comparison of commercial kits for detection of cryptococcal antigen
... Therefore, we compared the sensitivities and specificities of five commercially available kits for detecting cryptococcal antigen four latex agglutination test kits-Calas [Meridian Diagn[r] ...
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Cryptococcal Antigen Testing in an Integrated Medical System: Eastern Wisconsin
... with cryptococcal antigen tests (CrAg) — previously shown to be >90% sensitive and >90% specific — within a large health care system located in eastern ...
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Utility of clinical assessment, imaging, and cryptococcal antigen titer to predict AIDS-related complicated forms of cryptococcal meningitis
... cated cryptococcal meningitis were estimated using receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) analysis ...for cryptococcal anti- gen titers (base ...
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Cryptococcal Meningitis: Looking beyond HIV
... Introduction: Cryptococcal meningitis is a type of ...with cryptococcal meningitis at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal in the last two ...with cryptococcal meningitis had been diagnosed with HIV, remaining ...
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Fatal Empyema Thoracis Caused by Schizophyllum commune with Cross Reactive Cryptococcal Antigenemia
... fluconazole treatment for the possibility of pulmonary cryptococ- cosis. We excluded coinfection with C. neoformans or other patho- gens that might show cross-reactivity with the cryptococcal anti- gen test such ...
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Combination Antifungal Therapy for Cryptococcal Meningitis
... with cryptococcal meningitis and one or more of the following: positive India ink staining of the CSF, a positive test for CSF cryptococcal-antigen, a positive CSF or blood culture for Cryptococcus ...
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Development of cryptococcal immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome 41 months after the initiation of antiretroviral therapy in an AIDS patient
... CSF cryptococcal antigen tests were both positive; how- ever, titers had decreased to 1:64 and 1:4, respectively, in comparison with the titers that had been obtained in 2010 (Table ...CSF ...
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Performance of cryptococcus antigen latex agglutination kits on serum and cerebrospinal fluid specimens of AIDS patients before and after pronase treatment
... Cryptococcal antigen titer differences lower [-], higher [+] between the IBL and Meridian kits tested before U and after O pronase treatment on specimens selected on the basis of test re[r] ...
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Immune correlates of HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis
... residual cryptococcal antigen load probably drives C-IRIS during CD4 recovery on ART, with the elevated chemokine levels leading to excessive trafficking of immune cells into the CSF [43, 44, ...
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Large Solitary Pulmonary Cryptococcoma Mimicking Lung Carcinoma in an Immunocompetent Patient
... A cryptococcoma is a cavernous destruction of pulmonary or nervous tissue that manifests as granulomatous masses. C. gatti is the usual causative agent (2). Very rarely, a large solitary cryptococcoma may be the only ...
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Lymphocyte transformation assay for C neoformans antigen is not reliable for detecting cellular impairment in patients with Neurocryptococcosis
... response. Cryptococcal meningitis was diagnosed by India ink staining of cerebrospinal fluid and cryptococcal antigen test (Immunomycol-Inc, SP, ...neoformans antigen, C. albicans ...
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Clinical features of central nervous system infections and experience in differential diagnosis from neuropsychiatric lupus erythematosus in a cohort of 8491 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
... pathogen antigen/ antibody detection, such as the cryptococcal antigen latex agglutination system (CALAS) test, and Cysticercus cellu- losae antibody detection, or positivity for pathogen DNA ...
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Antifungal Combinations for Treatment of Cryptococcal Meningitis in Africa
... Supported by grants from the Medical Research Council, United Kingdom (100504) and the French Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (ANRS) (ANRS12275), a strategic award from the Wellcome Trust UK (to the ...
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Persistent Cryptococcal Brain Infection despite Prolonged Immunorecovery in an HIV-Positive Patient.
... headache, and neck stiffness. She had no past medical history of note. Systemic examination showed fever and meningism but no focal neurological deficits. Blood tests revealed mild anaemia, lymphopenia, and raised ...
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Adjunctive Dexamethasone in HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis
... are provided in the study protocol (available with the full text of this article at NEJM.org), with study-site information provided in Section 1 in the Supplementary Appendix, also avail- able at NEJM.org. In brief, we ...
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Commercial cryptococcal latex kit: clinical evaluation in a medical center hospital
... kit on CSF and serum specimens we determined that i the kit provided a rapid, reliable index' of cryptococcal antigen for diagnostic and prognostic use in cases of disseminated cryptococ[r] ...
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Clinical pattern and antifungal susceptibility of cryptococcus neoformans from cryptococcal meningitis patients in northern india
... of Cryptococcal meningitis and control group includes (non infectious neurological disorders like Dementia, Post polio syndrome, Multiple sclerosis ...etc.) Cryptococcal meningitis was defined on the basis ...
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Cryptococcal meningitis: A neglected NTD?
... prevent cryptococcal disease, poor retention in care and ART failure currently have a significant impact on the incidence of cryptococcal meningitis in ...of cryptococcal meningitis cases now occur ...
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