Do normal C-reactive protein levels exclude the diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis?

PF Levay; H Gryffenberg

Do normal C-reactive protein levels exclude the diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis?

PF Levay Kalafong Hospital, University of Pretoria
H Gryffenberg University of Pretoria

Abstract

South Africa is presently experiencing an epidemic of HIV-associated diseases, including cryptococcal meningitis. Cryptococcus is a fungal-type organism, and disseminated or cryptococcal meningitis is an AIDS-defining disease, occurring in up to 10% of patients with AIDS.

Author Biographies

PF Levay, Kalafong Hospital, University of Pretoria

MSc, MBChB, MMed (Int) Department of Internal Medicine, Kalafong Hospital, University of Pretoria

H Gryffenberg, University of Pretoria

Med TechDip Institute of Pathology, University of Pretoria

Issue

Vol 48, No 2 - March 2006

Section

Scientific letters

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