Sentences with word «cryptococcal»

The trial, funded by the UK Medical Research Council and the ANRS (the French national agency for research on AIDS and viral hepatitis), is the largest conducted to date, including over 700 participants, on the treatment of cryptococcal meningitis.

In a zebrafish model of cryptococcal disease, a decrease in ERK5 activity led to reduced dissemination of infection by an increase in vomocytosis.

Cryptococcal infection, once thought to be an exclusively tropical disease, has killed 60 people in the Pacific Northwest as of July, and health experts suspect climate change is involved

In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that patients with Cryptococcal meningitis, an infection of particular concern to people with HIV / AIDS, take flucytosine in combination with amphotericin B as a first line of defense.

Scientists at Duke Medicine are using transparent fish to watch in real time as Cryptococcal meningitis takes over the brain.

In the light of the new findings, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued new Cryptococcal Disease guidelines recommending a one - week drug course.

It causes more than 600,000 deaths a year from cryptococcal pneumonia and meningoencephalitis, accounting for a third of all AIDS - related deaths.

Occasionally, the lungs will also be involved, reflecting the presence of cryptococcal pneumonia.

«An effective, widely available treatment for cryptococcal meningitis is an unmet clinical need of global importance,» says Krysan.

But for those with compromised immunities, whether by HIV infection or cancer treatment, a resulting Cryptococcal meningitis infection can quickly become deadly.

An international team led by Professor Tom Harrison at St George's, University of London has published results of their Advancing Cryptococcal Treatment for Africa (ACTA) Trial in the New England Journal of Medicine which shows relatively simple changes can save tens of thousands of lives a year.

The shorter, safer and more effective antifungal drug regimen treats cryptococcal meningitis with a one - week combination antifungal regimen of amphotericin B and flucytosine for the initial induction phase of treatment.

Cryptococcal fungi have evolved mechanisms for eluding their protist predators, giving them an inadvertent advantage over look - alike immune cells in humans, porpoises and other mammals

Fluconazole is an antifungal used to treat systemic fungal infections such as cryptococcal meningitis, blastomycosis, and histoplasmosis.

The case involved allegations of negligence against a general practitioner for failing to refer a patient ultimately found to suffer from cryptococcal meningitis.

A zebrafish larva is infected with Cryptococcal meningitis and photographed under a microscope.

The fungal infection cryptococcal meningitis is responsible for more than 180,000 deaths per year worldwide, mainly in HIV - infected patients.