ABOUT 500 cases of human infection due to Cryptococcus neoformans have been described since Busse and Buschke separately presented descriptions of clinical findings in the same patient. In addition ...

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In a world first, researchers have revealed how a deadly fungus and primary cause of life-threatening meningitis exploits the immune system like a 'Trojan Horse' to promote infection. Published today ...

International HIV experts have reported approximately 250,000 fungal meningitis cases annually, in the AIDS report, sub-Saharan Africa contributing 73% of cases. This photomicrograph depicts ...

A ten-year effort by an international team has sequenced the entire genome and all the RNA products of the most important pathogenic lineage of Cryptococcus neoformans, a strain called H99.These ...

Multiple myeloma (MM) is incurable, except in some younger patients who undergo allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. However, the clinical outcome of patients with MM has improved significantly ...

Bacterial and viral are the more prevalent and commonly discussed forms of meningitis, but one infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham says fungal meningitis stemming from ...

A fungus that is a common cause of fungal meningitis undergoes a remarkable transformation once it enters the body, allowing it to infect the brain, according to new research by scientists at ...

A ground-breaking UK study has demonstrated how Cryptococcus neoformans helps meningitis infection develop by blocking and bursting blood vessels, paving the way for new treatments in the future. In ...

Several immune cells help fungi infect the brain and cause meningitis when they should be doing the exact opposite. From the University of Sydney, researchers investigate the immune system’s ...

Meningitis is a life-threatening form of infection in the brain that is difficult to treat. How infection spreads from the blood to cause meningitis is not well understood. Now, researchers from the ...