Benign cryptococcaemia.
The most familiar clinical presentation of cryptococcal disease is subacute lymphocytic meningitis, generally in immunocompromised patients. Isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans from the bloodstream has been regarded as a grave prognostic sign, but we have recently seen a patient with cryptococcaemia which had an unusually benign course.
D002648:Child; D003453:Cryptococcosis / Q000097:blood*; D003454:Cryptococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003455:Cryptococcus neoformans / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans