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Latex agglutination test negative cryptococcal meningitis in an immuno-competent individual: a case report
J P Agrawal1, H Tachibana, B Okuda
1Fifth Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan.
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
We report a case with progressive mental deterioration and persistent low grade fever, who was diagnosed to have cryptococcal meningitis. This case is unique in that the cryptococcal latex agglutination antigen test was consecutively negative. The diagnosis was made by sequential CSF culture.