<i>Cryptococcus gattii</i> meningitis in a diabetic adult in South India.
case_report · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_66_19 and PMC identifier 6482714.
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Abstract
Cryptococcosis is the opportunistic infection usually seen in immunocompromised individuals. Among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-seropositive participants, cryptococcal meningitis is the second most common cause of opportunistic neuro-infection, but at times, it occurs in non-HIV patients who are immunodeficient due to other reasons like chronic glucocorticoid use, organ transplantation, malignancy, and sarcoidosis and has rarely been described in diabetic patients. We present a fatal case of <i>Cryptococcus gattii</i> meningitis in a 56-year-old HIV-negative male patient with diabetes mellitus.