Baseline correlation and comparative kinetics of cerebrospinal fluid colony-forming unit counts and antigen titers in cryptococcal meningitis

• Main Authors: Annemarie E. Brouwer, Paprit Teparrukkul, Supraphada Pinpraphaporn, Robert A. Larsen, Wirongrong Chierakul, Sharon Peacock, Nicholas Day, Nicholas J. White, Thomas S. Harrison
• Other Authors: Mahidol University
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/16561

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cryptococcal colony-forming unit counts and CSF cryptococcal antigen titers serve as alternative measures of organism load in cryptococcal meningitis. For these measures, we correlated baseline values and rates of decline during the first 2 weeks of therapy in 68 human immu...