Combination therapy with fluconazole and flucytosine for cryptococcal meningitis in ugandan patients with aids

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1362-1367

  Mayanja Kizza, Harriet ^b   Oishi, Kazunori ^a   Mitarai, Satoshi ^b   Yamashita, Hiroshi ^b   Nalongo, Kisembo ^b   Watanabe, Kiwao ^b   Izumi, Takashi ^b   Ococi Jungala, ^b   Augustine, Kaddhu ^b   Mugerwa, Roy ^b   Nagatake, Tsuyoshi ^b   Matsumoto, Keizo ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG SAFETY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UGANDA;

EID: 0012995712     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516372     Document Type: Article

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