Chang Chee Yik, Mohd Shah Syarul Hafiz, Lio Jia Yin, Bahari Norazlah, Radhakrishnan Anuradha P
Infectious Disease Unit, Medical Department, Hospital Selayang, 68100, Batu Caves, Selangor, Malaysia.
Microbiology Unit, Pathology Department, Hospital Selayang, 68100, Batu Caves, Selangor, Malaysia.
Med Mycol Case Rep. 2021 Dec 15;35:1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.mmcr.2021.12.004. eCollection 2022 Mar.
Cryptococcosis is a systemic fungal infection caused by or causes a wide range of diseases, ranging from asymptomatic pulmonary lesions to disseminated disease involving the central nervous system, particularly meningoencephalitis. infection has rarely been reported in Malaysia. We present a case of meningitis with pulmonary cryptococcosis complicated by immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in an apparently immunocompetent person with no prior travel history.
隐球菌病是一种由……引起的全身性真菌感染,可引发多种疾病,从无症状的肺部病变到累及中枢神经系统(尤其是脑膜脑炎)的播散性疾病。在马来西亚,该感染的报道很少。我们报告一例明显免疫功能正常且无既往旅行史的患者发生肺隐球菌病合并免疫重建炎症综合征的隐球菌性脑膜炎病例。 (注:原文中“caused by or ”表述不完整,可能影响准确理解。)