Dual infective pathology in patients with cryptococcal meningitis

Neurology. 1998 Oct;51(4):1213-5. doi: 10.1212/wnl.51.4.1213.

Abstract

Coinfection of the nervous system by two distinct nonviral organisms is uncommon and often undiagnosed. Medical teaching emphasizes that a single pathologic process should be sought; however, in the presence of severe immunocompromise this approach may not hold true. We describe seven HIV-1 seropositive patients with cryptococcal meningitis, three of whom had a proven nervous system infection with a second organism: concurrent tuberculous meningitis, a tuberculoma, and the first documented case of cryptococcal meningitis and neurosyphilis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / microbiology*
  • Adult
  • HIV-1*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Meningitis, Cryptococcal / virology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Neurosyphilis / virology*
  • South Africa
  • Tuberculoma / virology
  • Tuberculosis, Meningeal / virology*
  • Viral Load