Disseminated Cryptococcosis in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Case Study
Jemima Islam *
Department of Internal Medicine, IPGMER & SSKM Hospital, Kolkata - 700020, India.
Mir Wasim Ali
Department of Internal Medicine, IPGMER & SSKM Hospital, Kolkata - 700020, India.
Sabyasachi Chowdhury
Department of Internal Medicine, IPGMER & SSKM Hospital, Kolkata - 700020, India.
Soumyadip Rakshit
Department of Internal Medicine, IPGMER & SSKM Hospital, Kolkata - 700020, India.
Md. Karimulla Mondal
Department of Internal Medicine, IPGMER & SSKM Hospital, Kolkata - 700020, India.
Anup Kumar Datta
Department of Internal Medicine, IPGMER & SSKM Hospital, Kolkata - 700020, India.
Kokila Banerjee
Department of Microbiology, Drs Trivedi and Roy Diagnostic Laboratory, Kolkata, India.
Soumitra Ghosh
Department of Internal Medicine, IPGMER & SSKM Hospital, Kolkata - 700020, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Cryptococcosis is the fungal infection caused by the yeast that belongs to the cryptococcus species which is divided into two broad categories, Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. Cryptococcosis is the opportunistic infection in the immunocompromised individual, particularly in HIV infected individual. In immunocompetent individuals, there may be serological evidence of cryptococcal infection, but cryptococcal disease is very rare in the absence of impaired immunity. Here we are reporting a case of disseminated cryptococcosis (multiple cold abscesses, sacroiliitis and asymptomatic pulmonary nodules) in an immunocompetent patient, which was initially thought to be mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
Keywords: Cryptococcosis, immunocompetent, cold abscess