Diagnosis & Tests
- Sputum culture and stain
- Lung biopsy
- Bronchoscopy
- Cerebrospinal Fluid culture and stain for Cryptococcus
- Chest x-ray
- Cryptococcal antigen test (looks for a certain molecule that the Cryptococcus fungus can shed into the blood)
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Cryptococcosis : Overview, Causes, & Risk Factors
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Cryptococcosis : Diagnosis & Tests
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Cryptococcosis : Treatment
Review Date : 9/28/2008
Reviewed By : David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
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