Table 3.

Baseline clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients screened serum CrAg positive using IMMY LFA and stratified by presence or absence of cryptococcal meningitis (CM).

Variables	With CM (n = 5)	Without CM (n = 18)	p-value
Symptoms
Headache, n (%)	3 (60)	2 (11.8)	0.06
Fever, n (%)	1 (20)	3 (16.7)	0.99
Confusion, n (%)	1 (20)	2 (11.1)	0.54
Photophobia, n (%)	1 (20)	1 (5.6)	0.40
Clinical signs
Neck stiffness, n (%)	2 (40)	0	0.04
Kernig sign, n (%)	2 (40)	0	0.04
Brudzinski sign, n (%)	2 (40)	1 (5.6)	0.10
CSF findings at inclusion
IMMY LFA CrAg positive, n (%)	4 (80)	0	0.001
Indian ink positive, n (%)	5 (100)	0	0.001
Culture positive, n (%)	4 (80)	0	0.001
Glucose in g/L, median (IQR)	0.4	0.5	0.08
	(0.4–0.5)	(0.40–0.5)
Proteins in g/L, median (IQR)	0.5	0.5	0.72
	0.4–0.8)	(0.3–0.7)