Cryptococcus tetragattii Meningitis Associated with Travel, Taiwan

Abstract

Meningitis caused by Cryptococcus tetragattii fungus is rare and has been found in specific geographic regions. We report a case of meningitis caused by C. tetragattii (molecular type VGIV) in an immunocompetent patient in Taiwan. The patient had traveled to Egypt and was positive for granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor autoantibody.

Keywords

• Cryptococcus tetragattii
• meningitis/encephalitis
• fungi
• Africa
• Taiwan
• Suggested citation for this article: Wu P-H