Science news articles about 'fungal meningitis'

... and their preventive use of anti-fungal drugs, has dramatically reduced their rate of fungal meningitis from Cryptococcus neoformans to about 2%.) In this study, Liise-anne Pirofski, M.D., describes ...

... which HIV-positive individuals are most likely to develop deadly fungal meningitis, a major cause of HIV-related death. This form of meningitis affects more than 900,000 HIV-infected people ...

Rare infection is slowly making its way down the Washington-Oregon coast