criptococosis
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micosis sistémica
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)
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Español
La Criptococosis es una micosis sistémica, generalmente oportunista. Es producida por Cryptococcus neoformans la mayoría de las veces, aunque también puede ser producida por Cryptococcus gattii.
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