Predicting fatal fungal infections
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 02:21
in Health & Medicine
In a study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified cells in blood that predict 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 globally -most of them in sub-Saharan Africa and other areas of the world where antiretroviral therapy for HIV is not available.