<unk>  is more common among immunocompromised patients who are at high risk for other fungal, bacterial and viral infections. Cryptococcal meningitis can be indistinguishable from bacterial or viral meningitis.<unk>  must be differentiated from diseases that cause symptoms of lower respiratory tract infection (fever, dyspnea, cough) and meningitis (fever, headache, neck stiffness, focal neurological deficits) such as coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, tuberculosis, and community/hospital-acquired pneumonia. Cutaneous<unk>  in HIV/AIDS patients must be differentiated from molluscum contagiosum and Kaposi's sarcoma.
Cryptococcosis differential diagnosis
Toxoplasmosis differential diagnosis
Echinococcosis differential diagnosis
Blastomycosis differential diagnosis
Paracoccidioidomycosis differential diagnosis
Psittacosis differential diagnosis
Ehrlichiosis differential diagnosis
Miliary tuberculosis differential diagnosis