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To: Borges
"Is Meningitis often an outcome of HIV?"

"3 million people died of AIDS in 2003, with 2.3 million people dying in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. One of the most common causes of death in AIDS patients is a very difficult to treat form of meningitis, caused by a yeast-like organism, Cryptococcus neoformans. Unlike drugs for bacterial meningitis, current treatments for cryptococcal meningitis are relatively weak and work by controlling the infection in the cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain."
-- www.sgul.ac.uk

15 posted on 09/14/2006 8:07:49 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen

".........Cryptococcus neoformans." Crypt o'cockus? Oh, say it ain't so. You made that up, right?


36 posted on 09/14/2006 8:25:14 AM PDT by diogenes ghost
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