Bibliographic Info
Recommendation
Recommended in favor
Strong
Certainty of evidence
Low
In settings with ready access to and no contraindication for lumbar puncture: i) If both access to a cryptococcal antigen assay (either lateral flow assay or latex agglutination assay) and rapid results (less than 24 hours) are available: Lumbar puncture with rapid cerebrospinal fluidcryptococcal antigen assay is the preferred diagnostic approach.
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This recommendation also appears in the following guidelines:
Guidelines for the diagnosis, prevention, and management of cryptococcal disease in HIV-infected adults, adolescents and children, March 2018: supplement to the 2016 consolidated guidelines of the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection
Consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, testing, treatment, service delivery and monitoring: recommendations for a public health approach
WHO guidelines on the management of advanced HIV disease