Immunohistochemical localization of capsular polysaccharide antigen in the central nervous system cells in cryptococcal meningoencephalitis

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1267-1274

  Lee, Sunhee C ^a   Casadevall, Arturo ^a   Dickson, Dennis W ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENINX; MICROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSACCHARIDES;

EID: 0029873404     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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