Is cryptococcal meningitis contagious

In general, patients with simple cryptococcal meningitis will not be infected through general daily contact. Cryptococcus is often present in the feces of some birds, because cryptococcus infection through the respiratory tract and then retrograde to the central nervous system through the blood system can make patients show cryptococcal meningitis. In addition, there are some patients if there are immunodeficiency diseases, such as AIDS patients, these patients resistance is very poor, it is easy to show cryptococcal meningitis caused by fungal infection, these patients if there is hiv infection, such as blood, body fluids and so on easily lead to infection, general daily contact, as long as the patient palm and other places without damage, general daily contact is not infectious.