Management of Cryptococcosis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue , 1993, Pages S507-S512

  Dismukes, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; AMPHOTERICIN B; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; ITRACONAZOLE;

BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DIARRHEA; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG MYCOSIS; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; VOMITING;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; AMPHOTERICIN B; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FLUCYTOSINE; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MENINGITIS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 0027522178     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/17.Supplement_2.S507     Document Type: Article

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