Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of the study population.
Table 2.
Performance of India ink and Acridine orange against culture.
Fig 1.
Venn diagram of the distribution of Cryptococcal meningitis CSF diagnostics.
Distribution of 194 CSF samples from 96 cryptococcal meningitis cases. All samples were positive for CSF cryptococcal antigen lateral flow assay. Only 66% of the samples were positive for India ink, acridine orange and culture.
Fig 2.
Cryptoccocus yeasts stained with acridine orange and India ink.
(a) Image of a positive acridine orange slide showing Cryptococcus yeasts fluorescing green against a dark background, using a blue filter on a fluorescent microscope. (b) Image of a negative acridine orange slide showing no Cryptococcus yeasts. (c) Image of a positive india ink slide showing a capsule of Cryptococcus yeasts on a bright field light microscope. (d) Image of a negative india ink slide showing no Cryptococcus yeasts. All images were taken at 40x magnification.