Septicemia due to DF-2. Cause of a false-positive cryptococcal latex agglutination result.
Publication/Presentation Date
7-1-1987
Abstract
A previously healthy 26-year-old man presented with fever, headache, skin rash, and thrombocytopenia. Cultures of blood and cerebrospinal fluid yielded a fastidious gram-negative bacillus, identified as DF-2. A unique feature of this case was the presence of a false-positive latex agglutination result for cryptococcal antigen in the cerebrospinal fluid in the absence of pleocytosis. Additional laboratory studies, which included indirect immunofluorescence and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, however, failed to reveal common antigenic surface components between these organisms.
Volume
83
Issue
1
First Page
155
Last Page
158
ISSN
0002-9343
Published In/Presented At
Westerink, M. A., Amsterdam, D., Petell, R. J., Stram, M. N., & Apicella, M. A. (1987). Septicemia due to DF-2. Cause of a false-positive cryptococcal latex agglutination result. The American journal of medicine, 83(1), 155–158. https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9343(87)90512-2
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
3605167
Department(s)
Department of Medicine
Document Type
Article