Multiple choice

“AIDS patients are highly vulnerable to cryptococcosis.”- What is the link between these two?

  1. Involving mucosal surface of oesophagus and oropharynx

  2. Due to having high antigen titers

  3. Due to formation of sporangia

  4. Involving lung after inhalation of sporangiospores

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Cryptococcosis is the sporadic widely spread infection caused by the microbes often encountered in soil and in the avian feces like pigeon droppings that apparently gives the organism’s reservior. AIDS patients are highly vulnerable to cryptococcosis. Maximum AIDS patients with cryptococcal meningitis have severely high antigen titers in both the spinal fluid and serum. Microscopic test of spinal fluid disclose huge number of yeast cells.