Table 4.

Causative organisms of intracranial fungal infections in Africa (N=8693)

Organisms	Number (percentage, %)	Lower limit 95% CI (%)	Upper limit 95% CI (%)
Opportunistic fungi
Cryptococcus species	8,428 (97.0)	96.6	97.3
Candida species	15 (0.2)	0.1	0.3
Rhizopus species	12 (0.1)	0.1	0.2
Mucor species	11 (0.1)	0.1	0.2
Aspergillus species	9 (0.1)	0.1	0.2
Conidiobolus coronatus	5 (0.1)	0.0	0.1
Acremonium specie	1 (0.0)	0.0	0.1
Petriellidium boydii	1 (0.0)	0.0	0.1
Cladosporium specie	1 (0.0)	0.0	0.1
Phaeohyphomycosis specie	1 (0.0)	0.0	0.1
Pseudallescheria boydii	2 (0.0)	0.0	0.1
Scopulariopsis specie	1 (0.0)	0.0	0.1
Trichophyton rubrum	1 (0.0)	0.0	0.1
Xylohypha bantiana	1 (0.0)	0.0	0.1
True pathogenic fungi
Blastomyces species	2 (0.0)	0.0	0.1
Histoplasma specie	1 (0.0)	0.0	0.1
Unspecified or not recorded	130 (1.5)	1.3	1.8