Table 3.

Microbiologic results on a patient basis.

	Sex	Age (years old)	Associated condition	Blood culture	Blood antigen testing	Titer (dilution)	India ink	CSF culture	Isolated specie	CSF antigen testing	Titer (dilution)
Patient 1	M	48	Sarcoidosis	Negative	Negative	-	Positive	Negative	-	Positive	1/128
Patient 2	M	40	Sarcoidosis	Negative	Negative	-	Negative	Positive	C. neoformans	Positive	NA
Patient 3	F	35	Sarcoidosis	Negative	Negative	-	Negative	Negative	-	Positive	NA
Patient 4	M	59	Sarcoidosis	Negative	Positive	1/512	Negative	Negative	-	Positive	1/16
Patient 5	M	62	Sarcoidosis	Negative	Positive	1/256	Positive	Positive	C. neoformans	Positive	1/512
Patient 6	M	85	Hematological malignancy	Negative	Positive	1/128	Negative	Positive	C. neoformans	Positive	1/1,024
Patient 7	M	65	Hematological malignancy	Negative	Positive	1/1,024	Positive	Positive	C. neoformans	Positive	1/1,024
Patient 8	F	55	Hematological malignancy	Negative	Positive	1/12	Negative	Negative	-	Positive	1/8
Patient 9	M	76	Hematological malignancy	Negative	Positive	1/128	Negative	Negative	-	Positive	1/16
Patient 10	F	40	HIV	Negative	Positive	1/64	Positive	Positive	C. neoformans	Positive	1/256
Patient 11	M	44	HIV	Negative	Positive	1/8,192	Positive	Positive	C. neoformans	Positive	1/4,096
Patient 12	M	32	HIV	Negative	Positive	1/2,048	Negative	Positive	C. neoformans	Positive	1/2,048
Patient 13	M	69	Kidney transplantation	Negative	Positive	1/256	Positive	Positive	-	Positive	1/512
Patient 14	M	46	Kidney transplantation	Negative	Positive	1/128	Negative	Negative	-	Positive	1/1,024
Patient 15	M	63	Auto-immune hepatitis	Negative	Positive	1/2	Negative	Positive	C. neoformans	Positive	1/32
Patient 16	F	27	Epilepsy associated to Arnold-Chiari malformation	Negative	Positive	1/1,024	Positive	Positive	C. gattii	Positive	1/2,048

CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; HIV, human-immunodeficiency virus; F, female; M, male; NA, not available.