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Sign in to saveAlso known as Busse-Buschke's disease, European cryptococcosis, torula, torulosis, cryptococcal infection, cryptococcus neoformans infection, Cryptococcosis、Cryptococcal disease
Cryptococcosis is a potentially fatal fungal infection of mainly the lungs, presenting as a pneumonia, and in the brain, where it appears as a meningitis. Coughing, difficulty breathing, chest pain and fever are seen when the lungs are infected. When the brain is infected, symptoms include headache, fever, neck pain, nausea and vomiting, light sensitivity and confusion or changes in behavior. It can also affect other parts of the body including skin, where it may appear as several fluid-filled nodules with dead tissue.
Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Cryptococcosis
- Medical condition (new).image
- Cryptococcus.jpg
- Medical condition (new).synonyms
- Busse-Buschke disease, cryptococcic meningitis, cryptococcosis lung, cryptococcosis skin, European Blastomycosis, torular meningitis, torulosis
- Medical condition (new).caption
- Micrograph of cryptococcosis showing the characteristically thick capsule of cryptococcus. Field stain.
- Medical condition (new).field
- Infectious disease
- Medical condition (new).symptoms
- Lung: Cough, difficulty breathing, chest pain and fever. Brain: Headache, fever, neck pain, nausea, vomiting, light sensitivity, confusion, change in behaviour. Skin: Nodules with dead tissue.
- Medical condition (new).causes
- Cryptococcus neoformans, Cryptococcus gattii
- Medical condition (new).risks
- HIV/AIDS, Aviculture
- Medical condition (new).diagnosis
- Biopsy, culture
- Medical condition (new).treatment
- Antifungal medication
- Medical condition (new).medication
- Fluconazole Amphotericin B Flucytosine
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
12,937 papers- Cryptococcosis.Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2016
- Cryptococcosis.Medical mycology journal · 2025
- Cryptococcosis.Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2025
- Pulmonary cryptococcosis: A review of pathobiology and clinical aspects.Medical mycology · 2019
- Cryptococcosis in Africa: What the data tell us.Medical mycology · 2023
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Pulmonary cryptococcosis (2) Alcian blue-PAS.jpg
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C2967
- Commons category
- Cryptococcosis
- health specialty
- infectious diseases
- ICPC 2 ID
- A78
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- fluconazole
- exact match
- www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_1546
- has cause
- Cryptococcus gattii
- ICD-9-CM
- 117.5
- different from
- cryptosporidiosis
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
Sources (7)
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