Gastric cryptococcal infection as an initial presentation of AIDS:a rare case report

作     者：Rupashree Sundar Lakshmi Rao Geetha Vasudevan Pruthvi Baise Chandrappa Gowda Rau Neeleshwar Radhakrishna 

作者机构：Department of PathologyKMCManipalManipal UniversityIndia Department of MedicineKMCManipalManipal UniversityIndia 

出 版 物：《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine》 (亚太热带医药杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2011年第4卷第1期

页      面：79-80页

核心收录：

学科分类：1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100401[医学-流行病与卫生统计学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Cryptococcus Gastrointestinal Immunocompromised 

摘      要：Cryptococcus neoformans has been recognized as a human pathogen over *** has achieved new prominence in the recent years as it is an opportunistic fungi causing fatal,deep mycotic infections in immunocompromised *** cryptococcus is principally a pathogen of central nervous system,wide variety of other organs may also be *** cryptococcosis is rarely reported either as an isolated finding or in a disseminated disease. However,even with the strikingly increased incidence of the disease,occurrence of obvious gastrointestinal symptoms direcdy attributable to cryptococcosis is outstandingly *** report a case of gastric cryptococcal infection with esophageal herpes as an initial presentation in an AIDS patient.