TABLE 1.

Eighteen cases of Cryptococcus infection in the NT

Case	Age (yr)/sex of patienta	Ethnicity	Location	Species	Presentation	CXR/CT/MRI result	Comment	Outcome
1	49/F	Aboriginal	Rural	C. bacillisporus	Pulmonary and CNS	CXR, consolidation and cryptococcoma, CNS/MRI, CNS/CT, normal	Excisional lung surgery	Survived
2	62/M	Aboriginal	Rural	C. neoformans	Pulmonary	Pulmonary/CT, mass lesion		Survived
3	64/M	Aboriginal	Rural	C. bacillisporus	Pulmonary and CNS	CXR, bronchopneumonia CNS/CT, CNS/MRI, hydrocephalus and multiple cryptococcomas	Ommaya reservoir	Survived
4	46/M	Aboriginal	Rural	C. bacillisporus	Pulmonary	CXR, lung infiltrate	No therapy	Died, postmortem diagnosis
5	25/M	Aboriginal	Rural	C. neoformans	Pulmonary	CXR, consolidation		Survived
6	38/F	Aboriginal	Rural	C. bacillisporus	Pulmonary	CXR and pulmonary/CT, multiple mass lesions		Survived
7	26/M	Non-Aboriginal	Rural	C. neoformans	Pulmonary	CXR and pulmonary/CT, multiple nodules plus cavity		Survived
8	39/M	Aboriginal	Rural	C. bacillisporus	Pulmonary, CNS, and blood subtypes	CXR, bilateral infiltrate CNS/CT, normal	No therapy	Died, postmortem diagnosis
9	57/F	Aboriginal	Rural	C. bacillisporus	Pulmonary	CXR, pulmonary/CT, multiple mass lesions		Survived
10	5/F	Aboriginal	Rural	C. bacillisporus	Pulmonary and CNS	CXR, bilateral infiltrates, mass lesion (abscess cavity)		Survived
11	53/F	Aboriginal	Rural	C. bacillisporus	Pulmonary	CXR, severe bilateral pneumonia	2 days of therapy	Died 2 days postdiagnosis
12	39/M	Aboriginal	Rural	C. bacillisporus	Pulmonary and CNS	CXR and pulmonary/CT, large left LL mass CNS/CT, 2 mass lesions	Excisional lung surgery	Survived
13	76/M	Aboriginal	Rural	C. neoformans	CNS	CXR, clear CNS/CT, no mass lesion		Survived
14	46/M	Aboriginal	Rural	C. bacillisporus	CNS	CXR, clear CNS/CT, CNS/MRI, paraventricular lesions		Survived
15	22/F	Aboriginal	Rural	C. bacillisporus	CNS	CNS/CT, CNS/MRI, hydrocephalus, no mass		Survived
16	28/F	Aboriginal	Urban	C. neoformans	Blood cultures only	CXR, CNS/MRI, both normal		Survived
17	49/F	Aboriginal	Rural	C. bacillisporus	CNS	CXR, normal CNS/CT, no mass	Ommaya reservoir	Died bacterial infection of reservoir
18	44/F	Aboriginal	Rural	Serology	Pulmonary and CNS	CXR, consolidation pulmonary/CT, mass lesion CNS/MRI, mass lesion		Survived

^aM, male; F, female.