RESUMEN

Cryptococcus neoformans is associated with as much as 45% of meningitis in patients admitted for hospital care in Zimbabwe, and it is an important opportunistic infection in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. Cases of cryptococcosis presenting as a spinal cord syndrome have been reported from Zimbabwe and South Africa, but these were all cases of Cryptococcus vertebral osteomyelitis. We describe 3 unusual patients who presented with a myelitis-like syndrome without vertebral osteomyelitis.

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Infecciones Oportunistas Relacionadas con el SIDA/fisiopatología , Criptococosis/fisiopatología , Mielitis/fisiopatología , Infecciones Oportunistas Relacionadas con el SIDA/tratamiento farmacológico , Adulto , Criptococosis/tratamiento farmacológico , Cryptococcus neoformans , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Mielitis/tratamiento farmacológico , Síndrome