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Diagnosis of Fungal Infections:
Challenges and Opportunities
Session #12
November 17, 2016
John W. Baddley, MD, MSPH
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Birmingham VAMC
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Disclosures
• Pfizer: trial adjudication committee
• R Pharma: DSMB
• Merck: consulting/honoraria (fungal)
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Objectives
1. Understand the epidemiology of common
fungal infections
2. Describe the clinical specimens required for
diagnosis of fungal infections and current
limitations
3. Compare available and emerging diagnostic
tests for invasive fungal infections
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Fungi
• There are approximately 90,000 fungal
species described
• It is estimated there are 1-5 million
species on the planet
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Beneficial FungiUse Organism(s)
Antibiotics Penicillium chrysogenum, etc.
Antifungals Aspergillus nidulans, P. griseofulvin
Cholesterol Monascus purpureus
Wine Saccharomyces spp., others
Cheese Penicillium roqueforti
Beer Saccharomyces spp.
Chocolate C. krusei, Geotrichum, etc.
Bread Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Stone washed jeans Trichoderma reesii
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Diagnosis of Fungal Infection
Case History
Physical Exam
Direct Microscopy
Histopathology
Culture and
Identification
Serodiagnostic
Testing
Laboratory Diagnosis Imaging Studies
Clinical Recognition
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Yeast
Mould
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Transbronchial Biopsy
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Laboratory Specimens
• Tissue
• Blood
• Pulmonary (sputum,
BAL, pleural fluid)
• Cerebrospinal fluid
• Urine
• Bone marrow
• Skin and nail
scrapings
• Peritoneal fluid
• Synovial fluid
• Throat swabs
• Vitreous/corneal
scrapings
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General Laboratory Diagnosis
• Direct microscopy and culture of all specimens• Microscopy:
Wet mounts (KOH, India ink, Calcofluor white)
Gram stain
H & E (hematoxylin and eosin)
PAS (periodic-acid shiff)
GMS (Gomori-methenamine silver)
Lactophenol blue
Specialty stains: mucicarmine
• Cultures should be maintained at least 4-6
weeks
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Culture Media
• Blood agar
• Sabouraud dextrose Agar (SDA)
• Brain-heart-infusion (BHI) agar
• Potato dextrose
• Potato flake agar
• Mycobiotic agar
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Diagnostic Value of Specimens
Organism CSF Sputum Biopsy Blood Urine
Tissue Marrow
Candida + + +++ ++ +
Cryptococcus +++ + +++ + +
Aspergillus - ++ +++ - -
Dimorphics + ++ +++ + +
- no value + limited value ++ frequently useful +++ very suitable specimen
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CASE 1
• 26-year old man presents to his primary
care provider complaining of scratchy
throat x 1 week. Also c/o pain upon
swallowing
• No medical problems
• He is a bartender and sexually active with
men and women. Multiple partners in past
6 months.
• He smokes one pack per day
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Candidiasis-OPC
• Oropharyngeal candidiasis (“thrush”)
Most frequent OI in patients with AIDS (75%)
Recurrent in 1/3 of patients
Risk factors: prior colonization, prior thrush, low CD4
Mostly due to C. albicans; C. glabrata and C. tropicalis
• Clinical manifestations: include oral discomfort, altered taste sensation, and the appearance of creamy white plaques on an erythematous base. Can also present as erythema alone.
• Locations: buccal mucosa, palate, tongue, oropharynx. Candida spp. also cause angular cheilitis
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Candidiasis- OPC
• Diagnosis:Based on clinical appearance
KOH prep of scraped lesions may be helpful
Culture is helpful in refractory cases
• Treatment: topical agents or azolesFluconazole, itraconazole (70-100% response)
Clotrimazole (Mycelex troches) (65-95%)
Nystatin
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KOH Preparation
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Case 2
• 55 y/o man in SICU develops fever and
leukocytosis
• PMed Hx: Diabetes, hypertension
• Surg Hx: GI surgery for pancreatic fluid
collection 1 week ago
• Has foley, CVC in place; Cr 1.1
• BP 120/70, pulse 110, Temp 101.5º
• No recent antifungal use
• Blood cultures grow yeast
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Candida albicans
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Candida —A High Priority in the ICU:
Bloodstream Infection Pathogens
Pathogen
% BSI
(n=10,515)
Crude
Mortality, %
Coagulase-negative Staph
Staphylococcus aureus
Candida species
Enterococcus species
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
35.9 (1)a
16.8 (2)a
10.1 (3)
9.8 (4)
4.7 (5)
25.7
34.4
47.1
43.0
47.9
aP<.05 for patients in ICU vs non-ICU settings.
SCOPE data. Wisplinghoff et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2004;39:309-317.
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Risk Factors for Candidemia
• Central venous catheters
• Systemic antibiotic exposure
• Length of stay in ICU >72 hours
• Major surgery, especially abdominal
• Pancreatitis
• Dialysis
• Neutropenia
• Immunosuppressive agents
• Colonization with Candida species
• Total parenteral nutrition, hyperalimentation
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Distribution of Common
Candida Species
Various sources, predominantly IDSA Guidelines: Pappas et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2004;38:161-189.
Frequency
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Lab Turnaround Times
Organism Culture Ident. Susceptibility Total
C. albicans 48 hrs 3 hrs 24-48 hrs 3-5 d
Other yeasts 48 hrs 72-96 hrs 24-72 hrs 4-8 d
Aspergillus 48 hrs 3 hrs-7 d 24-48 hrs 4-8 d
Other moulds 2-14 d 1-28 d 24-72 hrs 4-42 d
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• Cultures
• Blood, urine, other bodily fluids
• Candida blood cultures
• ~60% positive with 2 or more organs involved at autopsy
• Newer diagnostic techniques
• β-glucan (Fungitell™)
• T2 Candida (rapidity of species diagnosis)
• MALDI-TOFF
Diagnostic Strategies
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Use of Beta-D-Glucan Assay
to Diagnose Candidemia
1. Obayashi et al. Lancet. 1995;345:17-20.
2. Odabasi et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2004;39:199-205.
3. Ostrosky-Zeichner et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2005;41:654-659.
4. Mohr et al. Presented at: 45th ICAAC; Washington, DC. 2005. Abstract M-168.
Author Population Sampling Sensitivity, % Specificity, % PPV,% NPV, %
Obayashi1 Febrile
patients
Single 90 100 59 97
Odabasi2 AML / MDS Multiple, 2+ 65 96 57 97
Ostrosky-
Zeichner3
Hospitalized
patients
Single 64 92 89 73
Mohr4 ICU patients,
surveillance
Multiple, 2+ 100 63 – –
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Limits of Detection for Five Candida Species
C. albicans C. tropicalis C. krusei C. parapsilosis C. glabrata
0 CFU/ml
Mean T2 41.2 44.6 33.9 37.3 32.6
CV (%) 2.8 1.2 1.4 1.0 2.0
1 CFU/ml
Detected (%) 93.8 75.0 81.3 100 93.8
Mean T2 546.5 525.9 383.2 480.1 327.8
%DT2 1226 1079 1030 1187 906
CV (%) 6.1 22.4 21.9 24.7 12
2 CFU/ml
Detected (%) 93.8 87.5 100 100 100
Mean T2 570.4 479.7 438.8 574.0 386
%DT2 1284 976 1194 1439 1084
CV (%) 6.1 30.0 12.0 6.8 12
3 CFU/ml
Detected (%) 100 100 100 100 100
Mean T2 485.4 611.9 347.3 567.4 357
%DT2 1078 1272 924 1421 995
CV (%) 5.4 11.7 10.6 8.1 11.9
LOD (CFU/ml) 3 3 2 1 2
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Agreement of T2MR with Blood Culture
Using Spiked Whole-blood Samples
Data are number of samples
Science Translational Media.org 24 April 2013 Vol 5 Issue 182 182ra54
Blood Culture Total
+ ‒
90 43 133
T2MR Candida* 88 0 88
Candida 2 43 45
Positive agreement = 88/90 = 97%
Negative agreement = 43/43 = 100%
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T2Candida and T2Dx: Just Minutes of
Hands-on Time
Directly load the
vacutainer
Place the vacutainer
assembly and reagent
tray on the cartridge
body
Results reported to LIS system in approximately 3 hours
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T2Candida and T2Dx
• Unparalleled limit of detection: ~1 CFU/mL
• Results in approximately 3 hours – Multiple days faster than the gold standard
• Direct whole blood detection
• Species data to aid in therapy choices
• Reduced costs – ICU– Length of stay
– Inappropriate antimicrobial
therapy
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Candida Resistance to Azoles
• Candida glabrata is a common cause of candidemia
(incidence up to 30%)
• Fluconazole resistance (C. glabrata) in 10-20% of isolates
• Cross-resistance to other triazoles is common
• Resistance is associated with worse outcomes (mortality,
response)
• Mechanisms: cyp51A mutations; ATP-binding cassette
(ABC) transporter and major facilitator superfamily (MFS)
proteins (CDR, CaMDr); CgPDR1 mutations
• Risk factors: antifungal exposure, age, antibacterials
Castanheira et al., Int J Antimicrob Agents 2014
Ben-Ami et al., AAC 2012; Pham et al., AAC 2014
Perlin D et al., Curr Clin Micro Rpt 2015
Lee I et al., Arch Int Med 2009
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Candida Resistance to Echinocandins
• Resistance is uncommon (<3%)
• C. glabrata echinocandin resistance is increasing (up to
15%) and is increased in azole-resistant C. glabrata isolates
• Resistance among specific echinocandins similar (3.1%-
3.6%), but not always the same
• Mechanisms: FKS1 or FKS2 “hot spot” mutations; drug
efflux mediated by Cdr2p (ATP-binding cassette transporter)
• Resistance with FKS mutants is associated with treatment
failure
• Risk Factors: previous echinocandin exposure
Pham et al., AAC 2014; Beyda et al., CID 2014
Garcia-Effron et al, AAC 2009; Alexander B et al., Clin Infect Dis 2013
Perlin D et al., Curr Clin Micro Rpt 2015
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CASE 3
• 50 y/o WM that came to clinic complaining of
low-grade fever and cough productive of
yellow sputum for 5 days
• PMHx: CML requiring allogeneic HSCT (90
days prior to symptoms)
GVHD of skin (HSCT +25)
• Meds: Cyclosporine, corticosteroids
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History
• The mould Aspergillus was named in 1729 by the Italian priest and biologist Pietro Antonio Micheli. Under the microscope it resembled an aspergillum
• Aspergillus candidus identified from
the air sac of a Bullfinch in 1842
(Rayer and Montagne)
• First human infection in 1856 (Virchow)
• Aspergillus fumigatus described in 1863 in the bronchi of a great bustard (Fresenius)
• Over 200 Aspergillus species have been described, 40 of which are human pathogens
• We inhale 20-2000 Aspergillus spores (conidia) daily
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Disease
1) Allergic response
-Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA)
-Allergic sinusitis
2) Colonization/Infection
-Aspergilloma
-Chronic cavitary pulmonary aspergillosis
-Chronic fibrosing pulmonary aspergillosis
-Semi-invasive with progression to IA
3) Other
-Tracheobronchitis
4) Tissue invasion
-Invasive aspergillosis
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Diagnostics for IA
• Chest imaging: “halo sign”
• Cultures:
-Blood cultures: positive in <3%
-Respiratory tract: positive in 50-60%
-Transbronchial/open lung: positive in 55%
• Aspergillus galactomannan: Sensitivity 30-
95%; specificity 72-95%
• β-glucan: Sensitivity/specificity 70-90%
• PCR: Sensitivity 43-100%; specificity 93-100%
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A. terreus
A. niger
A. flavus
A. fumigatus
A. versicolor
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• Sandwich ELISA technique (using rat monclonal antibody EB-A2, which recognizes (15)--D-galactofuranose residues of the GM molecule)
• Sensitivity: 50-98%; specificity 85-99%
• Indications for testing:-Diagnosis of IA
-Monitoring during immunosuppression
-Monitoring response to treatment
• *Test is positive a median of:- 14 days before definitive diagnosis of IA
- 9 days before a positive culture for Aspergillus
- 6 days before initiation of antifungal therapy
- 6 days before CXR/CT abnormality
Platelia® Aspergillus Antigen (Galactomannan)
Courtesy of Larry Wheat*Maertens et al., JID 2002
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Serum Galactomannan
• Meta-analyses of heterogeneous studies:
Pfeiffer CD, et al. Clin Infect Dis 2005;42:1417-27.
Leeflang MM, et al. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2008;4:CD007394
Study Group Sensitivity Specificity LR+ LR-
Pfeiffer 2006 Overall
0.61
(0.59, 0.63)
0.93
(0.92, 0.94) 8.7 0.42
Pfeiffer 2006 Heme Malig
0.58
(0.52, 0.64)
0.95
(0.94, 0.96) 11.6 0.44
Pfeiffer 2006 SOT
0.41
(0.21, 0.64)
0.65
(0.44, 0.83) 1.2 0.91
Leeflang 2008 Overall
0.78
(0.61, 0.89)
0.81
(0.72, 0.88) 4.1 0.27
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BAL Galactomannan
Guo YL, et al. Chest 2010;138:817-24. Zou M, et al. PLoS One 2012;7:e43347
Avni T, et al. J Clin Microbiol 2012;50:3652-8. Heng SC, et al. Crit Rev Microbiol 2015;41:124-34.
Meta-Analysis Cutoff Sensitivity Specificity LR+ LR- Context
Guo 2010 0.5-2 0.90 (0.79, 0.96) 0.94 (0.90, 0.96) 14.9 0.1
Zou 2012 0.5 0.87 (0.79, 0.92) 0.89 (0.85, 0.92) 8 0.15
Zou 2012 1 0.86 (0.76, 0.92) 0.95 (0.91, 0.97) 17 0.15
Avni 2012 0.5 0.82 (0.53, 0.95) 0.97 (0.92, 0.99) 27 0.19
Avni 2012 1 0.85 (0.63, 0.95) 0.99 (0.97, 1.0) 85 0.15
Heng 2015 0.5 0.82 (0.70, 0.91) 0.92 (0.85, 0.96) 10.9 0.19
Hematologic Malignancy
Heng 2015 1 0.75 (0.55, 0.88) 0.95 (0.87, 0.98) 16.1 0.26
Hematologic Malignancy
Heng 2015
1.5 (4
studies) 0.92 (0.48, 0.99) 0.98 (0.78, 1.00) 54 0.08
Hematologic Malignancy
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Aspergillus PCR
Meta-Analysis Consecutive + Sensitivity Specificity LR+ LR-
Special
Population
Mengoli 2009 1 0.88 (0.75, 0.94) 0.75 (0.63, 0.84) 3.5 0.15
Arvanitis 2014 1 0.84 (0.75, 0.91) 0.76 (0.65, 0.84) 3.5 0.21
Heme
Malignancy
Cruciani 2015 1 0.81 (0.73, 0.86) 0.79 (0.68, 0.86) 3.9 0.24
Mengoli 2009 2 0.75 (0.54, 0.88) 0.87 (0.78, 0.93) 6 0.28
Arvanitis 2014 2 0.64 (0.38, 0.84) 0.95 (0.88, 0.98) 12.8 0.38
Heme
Malignancy
Cruciani 2015 2 0.58 (0.37, 0.77) 0.96 (0.90, 0.99) 14.5 0.44
Mengoli C, et al. Lancet Infect Dis 2009;9:89-96.
Arvanitis M, et al. J Clin Microbiol 2014;52:3731-42.Cruciani M, et al. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015 Sep 7;9:CD009551.
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Lateral Flow Device
• Serum: sensitivity and specificity comparable to serum GM
• BAL: comparable to BAL GM in solid organ transplant recipients
(relatively high sensitivity), ICU patients, hematologic malignancy (lower
sensitivity in the context of antifungal therapy), lung disease
Pan Z, et al. J Med Microbiol 2015;64:702-7.
White PL, et al. J Clin Microbiol 2013;51:1510–6.
Hoenigl M, et al. J Clin Microbiol 2014;52:2039-45.
Dufresne SF, et al. PLoS One 2015; 7:e42736.
Matrix Sens Spec LR+ LR-
BAL 0.86 (0.76, 0.93) 0.93 (0.89, 0.96) 12.3 0.15
Serum 0.68 (0.52, 0.81) 0.87 (0.80, 0.92) 22.7 0.33
Willinger B, et al. Transplantation 2014;98:898-902.
Eigl S, et al. Crit Care 2015; 19:178.
Prattes J, et al. Mycoses 2015;58:461-69.
Prattes J, Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2014;190:922-9
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Breath sampling in patients
with suspected fungal pneumonia
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Metabolite overlap between breath and A.
fumigatus cultures
Patient Breath (VOCP001)In-vitro Culture
A: a-pinene
B: camphene
C: limonene
D: a-trans-
bergamotene
E: -trans-
bergamotene
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B
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Aspergillus metabolites in breath
Koo S, et al. Clin Infect Dis 2014; 59:1733.
Sens: 0.94 (0.81, 0.95)
Spec: 0.93 (0.79, 0.98)
LR+ 13.4, LR-: 0.06
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Resistance in Aspergillus
Itraconazole R - first described in 1997
Specific mutations in CYP51A (azole
target)
– Global emergence of point mutations
with TR in promoter region
(TR34/L98H &
TR46/Y121F/T289A)—environmental
– Specific “hot-spots”:
G54, L98, G138, M220, G448
Over expression of CYP51B
Efflux pump: cdr1B, atrF
“Pan” azole resistant isolates
now described – cavitary disease,
also in azole naïve patientsBuied A, et al. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2010 Oct;65(10):2116-8.
Fraczek MG, et al. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2013 Jul;68(7):1486-96. Buied A, et al. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2013 Mar;68(3):512-4
Verweij PE, et al. NEJM 2007;356:1481-3.
Slide adapted from GR Thompson. Verweij et al., Lancet Infectious Diseases 2009
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CASE 4
• 52-year-old renal transplant patient with fever,
chills, cough, malaise for 1-2 months
• Presented to OSH and diagnosed with
pneumonia, UTI, AKI, CHF exacerbation
• Received multiple antibiotics
• Transferred to UAB for continued care
• Renal tx 12/2007; HTN, DM, CHF
• Soc: lives in Selma, AL; no tobacco/drugs, or
sick contacts. Had influenza vaccine
• No CMV, PJP prophylaxis
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CASE 4, con’t
• BAL: forms c/w Histoplasma capsulatum
• Blasto antigen positive
• Histo antigen positive (12.1)
• BAL grew H. capsulatum
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Histoplasmosis
• Caused by the dimorphic fungus Histoplasma
capsulatum
• Discovered by Darling in 1904. Other names:
Darling’s disease, Ohio Valley Disease
• Endemic to Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys,
also in parts of Central and South America. Seen
in South Africa
• Found in the soil; associated with bird roosts,
caves, excavation, and rivers
• Acquired by inhalation of spores
• Person-to-person transmission by organs only
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Suitability model included three geographic layers: the 2006 National Land Cover Database, soil pH and Euclidean distance fro m the nearest open water. Layers were weighted 70% for land utilization, 20% for distance from water and 10% for soil pH. Our suitability score model predicted states
with high and mid-to-high histoplasmosis incidence with an AUC of 0.72 and 0.74, respectively, when compared to state -based CMS data.
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Diagnosis
• Definitive test is culture from clinical samples
• Grows in up to 6 weeks
• Histopathology shows 2-4 m oval, budding
yeasts, often intracellular in macrophages. Seen
best on GMS staining
• Antigen testing is most useful in patients with
disseminated disease
• Antibody testing (comp. fix, EIA) also sensitive in
acute and chronic pulmonary disease, but may
take up to 6 weeks to develop antibody response
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FINAL CASE!
• 42-year-old lady with a history of renal
transplantation
• She was driving her car home and ran into a
house. At the scene, she did not remember that
this happened
• Taken to UAB and admitted for evaluation
• Bad headache x 2 weeks
• Fever on admission
• CT of brain was negative
• CXR showed multiple small nodules
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Cryptococcosis
• Caused by the encapsulated, budding yeasts Cryptococcus neoformans or Cryptococcus gattii
• These fungi are particularly abundant in soil contaminated by pigeon droppings
• C. gattii infection has been described throughout the world but endemnicity has primarily been limited to tropical and subtropical regions. A notable exception is the emergence of C. gattii in Vancouver, Canada and the pacific northwest United States since 1999
• Pulmonary infection results from inhalation of the organism from an environmental source, and the organism has a propensity to metastasize to the central nervous system
• Rare cause of pneumonia, with incidence of <0.1%
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Cryptococcosis: Pulmonary Disease
Clinical features:
-Symptoms: Cough, fever, malaise, chest pain, weight loss, dyspnea, night sweats, and hemoptysis
-CXR with focal or diffuse infiltrates, nodules, or cavitary lesions
A significantly lower prevalence of symptoms has been described in immunocompetent versus immunocompromised patients, with as many as 25% of HIV-negative patients with pulmonary involvement lacking respiratory symptoms
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Cryptococcal Meningitis
-Headache, fever, malaise, lethargy, altered mentation
-Symptoms are usually present 2-4 weeks before diagnosis
-May have cranial nerve palsies, hyperreflexia
-Much more common in HIV-infected patients (when compared to HIV-negative)
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Diagnosis• Definitive diagnosis is made by culture. Best yields will occur
from bronchoscopy with BAL, transbronchial biopsy or open lung
biopsy.
• C. neoformans can grow on most bacterial and fungal culture
media and can be detected after 2-7 days of growth
• On histopathology, Cryptococcus is recognized by its oval shape
and narrow-based budding. With use of the mucicarmine stain,
the cryptococcal capsule will stain rose to burgundy in color and
help to differentiate it from Blastomyces dermatiditis, and
Histoplasma capsulatum
• Cryptococcal antigen testing: in HIV-negative patients with
pulmonary cryptococcosis, serum cryptococcal antigen will be
positive in 25-56%
• Patients with extrapulmonary and pulmonary cryptococcosis are
more likely to have higher antigen titers when compared to
patients with only cryptococcal lung disease
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Diagnosis (2)
-CSF shows lymphocyte predominance, elevated
protein, low glucose
-Lumbar puncture opening pressure is elevated in
>50%
-India ink shows thick capsule (positive in 50-80% of
patients with AIDS and cryptococcal meningitis)
-CSF cryptococcal antigen (positive in 99%)
-CSF, blood cultures often positive
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Mucicarmine staining
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Cryptococcal Antigen Lateral Flow Assay
CrAg LFA
• Qualitative
• Semi-Quantitative (titer)
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20ul ; incubation
at 5, 15 min
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