@article{ef1a33e3f67c4eb798d35505143b67d0,
title = "Comparative Epidemiology and Outcomes of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), non-HIV non-transplant, and solid organ transplant associated cryptococcosis: A population-based study",
abstract = "In this population-based study in the contemporary era in the United States, the proportion of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–negative patients with cryptococcosis approaches that in HIV-infected patients. Cryptococcosis is associated with higher mortality rates in HIV-negative patients (including organ transplant recipients).",
keywords = "Comparative epidemiology, Cryptococcosis, Outcomes",
author = "George, {Ige A.} and Andrej Spec and Powderly, {William G.} and Santos, {Carlos A.Q.}",
note = "Funding Information: Financial support. This study used the services of the Center for Administrative Data Research, supported in part by the Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (grant UL1 TR000448 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NIH); grant R24 HS19455 through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; and grant KM1CA156708 through the National Cancer Institute, NIH). Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge Satish Munigala, MD, for the statistical help and John W. Baddley, MD, MSPH, for providing the unpublished data on the validity of ICD-9-CM codes for cryptococcosis. This study used the services of the Center for Administrative Data Research, supported in part by the Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (grant UL1 TR000448 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NIH); grant R24 HS19455 through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; and grant KM1CA156708 through the National Cancer Institute, NIH). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.",
year = "2018",
month = feb,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1093/cid/cix867",
language = "English",
volume = "66",
pages = "608--611",
journal = "Clinical Infectious Diseases",
issn = "1058-4838",
number = "4",
}