Worldwide, cryptococcal meningitis kills up to 180,000 persons annually and is the most common cause of nonviral meningitis in the United States. Besides patients with immunosuppression due to human ...

This double-blind trial enrolled adults with HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Laos, Uganda, and Malawi. All patients received combination antifungal therapy of ...

Two young people have died and 11 others are seriously ill in hospital after an outbreak of invasive meningococcal meningitis in Kent, England.1 The two who died have been confirmed as a student at ...

Cryptococcal meningitis accounts for 20 to 25% of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome–related deaths in Africa. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is essential for survival; however, the question of when ART ...

Dar es Salaam / Lilongwe / Geneva — 15 April 2025 — A new, easier-to-administer and patient-friendly sustained-release formulation of flucytosine, a medicine used to treat cryptococcal meningitis, has ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Dr Rebecca Drummond writes for The Conversation about meningitis infections, how it spreads and who is most at risk ...

The chairman of the National Pharmacy Association said there was currently no stock of meningitis B vaccines for people to ...

When it comes to bacterial infections, bacterial meningitis may not be the most common one, but it is certainly among the most serious. "The most worrisome part of bacterial meningitis is the ...

There is hope in the fight against cryptococcal meningitis, the second leading cause of death in patients with advanced HIV (previously called AIDS), as scientists work around the clock to release new ...

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