Scientists at Duke Medicine are using transparent fish to watch in real time as Cryptococcal meningitis takes over the brain. The resulting images are worthy of a sci-fi movie teaser, but could be ...
This double-blind trial enrolled adults with HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Laos, Uganda, and Malawi. All patients received combination antifungal therapy of ...
BEDMINSTER, N.J., Oct. 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Matinas BioPharma Holdings, Inc. (NYSE AMER: MTNB), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it has initiated its Phase 2 ...
International HIV experts have reported approximately 250,000 fungal meningitis cases annually, in the AIDS report, sub-Saharan Africa contributing 73% of cases. This photomicrograph depicts ...
Martin Pistorius was diagnosed with cryptococcal meningitis and tuberculosis of the brain, which left him in a vegetative ...
Nelesh P. Govender currently receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. South Africa has launched the world’s largest national screening ...
Dar es Salaam / Lilongwe / Geneva — 15 April 2025 — A new, easier-to-administer and patient-friendly sustained-release formulation of flucytosine, a medicine used to treat cryptococcal meningitis, has ...
Experts aim to halve the number of deaths from a type of meningitis by changing drug treatment as a result of a new medical study. The fungal infection cryptococcal meningitis is responsible for more ...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Viamet Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for VT-1129 for the ...
Amphotericin B iv. 0.7–1 mg/kg q.d., plus flucytosine o.s. 25 mg/kg q.i.d. Fluconazole o.s./iv. 800–1200 mg q.d. Fluconazole o.s./iv. 400 mg q.d. Fluconazole o.s ...
Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii have been found large numbers on trees in South Africa. Large populations of potentially deadly cryptococcal fungi have been found on woody debris ...