Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is difficult to diagnose ... shorter duration of illness before presentation to hospital, and fewer CSF leukocytes – this suggests that mycobacterial genotype ...

However, the clinical symptoms, laboratory and neuroimaging findings of CNS TB are nonspecific, no matter whether they are the common form, tuberculous meningitis (TBM), or the rare form ...

Cryptococcal meningitis is a potentially deadly infection of the protective lining of the brain and spinal cord (the meninges) caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans (C. neoformans).