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Tuberculous Meningitis:Clin Charact & Comp with Cryptococ Mening in Pts with HIV Infect
Arch Neurol 53:671-676, Sanchez-Portocarrero,J.,et al, 1996
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Article Abstract
Thirty-six episodes of meningitis were diagnosed in 33 patients(23%).Of these,17 cases(47%)were tuberculous meningitis(5 definite and 12 probable) and 7(19%)corresponded to cryptococcal meningitis.Comparative studies of the tuberculous and cryptococcal meningitis cases showed injecting drug use as the most common form of HIV transmission in the tuberculous meningitis(P=.03)and a lower mean CD4+cell count in the cryptococcal meningitis group(P=.02).Tuberculous meningitis was the prime type of meningitis,which was associated with HIV transmission by injecting drug use.Cryptococcal meningitis appears in more advanced stages of HIV infection,which determines its characteristic presentation.
 
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