Disseminated Cryptococcosis in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Case Study

Abstract

Cryptococcosis is the fungal infection caused by the yeast that belongs to the cryptococcus species which is divided into two broad categories, Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. Cryptococcosis is the opportunistic infection in the immunocompromised individual, particularly in HIV infected individual. In immunocompetent individuals, there may be serological evidence of cryptococcal infection, but cryptococcal disease is very rare in the absence of impaired immunity. Here we are reporting a case of disseminated cryptococcosis (multiple cold abscesses, sacroiliitis and asymptomatic pulmonary nodules) in an immunocompetent patient, which was initially thought to be mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.