%0 Journal Article
%T Criptococose em crian£¿as no Estado do Par¨¢, Brasil
%A Corr¨ºa
%A Maria do Perp¨¦tuo Socorro Costa
%A Oliveira
%A Eliseth Costa
%A Duarte
%A Rosineide Roseli Barros Seixas
%A Pardal
%A Pedro Pereira Oliveira
%A Oliveira
%A Fl¨¢vio de Mattos
%A Severo
%A Luiz Carlos
%J Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
%D 1999
%I Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT
%R 10.1590/S0037-86821999000500006
%X we report 19 cases of cryptococcosis in children, diagnosed in bel¨¦m, pa. in nine patients the variety of the etiologic agent was studied and identified as cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii.the average age of these patients was 7.8 years (range, 5-13 years) there were 5 girls and 4 boys (ratio, 1.25:1). amphotericin b treatment (associated with fluconazole 3 or fluocytosine 1) was given but five (56%) of these patients died in the following three months. the existence of highly endemic areas of infection by var. gattii in par¨¢, brazil and the severity of the disease due to this fungal variety are commented.
%K cryptococosis
%K cryptococcus neoformans
%K cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii
%K childhood
%K meningitis.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0037-86821999000500006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en