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JOURNAL OF INFECTION
卷 44, 期 3, 页码 185-188出版社
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DOI: 10.1053/jinf.2001.0955
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We report on a case of cryptococcal intramedullary abscess, which occurred three years after a disseminated cryptococcosis and two years after a lymph node cryptococcal recurrence in a HIV-infected patient who exhibited a long-standing immune restoration. At the time of diagnosis, CD4(+) lymphocyte-count was 640 x 10(6)/l and HIV viral load was undetectable. Spinal involvement is rare during cryptococcosis of the central nervous system. As far as we are aware, there is only one case of proven intramedullary cryptococcal abscess reported in the literature and this case is then the second one. The significant and Sustained increase in CD4 count following effective antiretroviral therapy was probably associated with only a partial immune restitution that did not allo,, to avoid the occurrence of the cryptococcal medullar abscess. Finally, this case raises the question of when to stop secondary prophylaxis of cryptococcal disease after increase in CD4 cell count under antiretroviral therapy. (C) 2002 The British Infection Society.
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