Cryptococcosis associated with HIV negative Indian patients and HIV positive Indian blood donors

Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie

Volumn 283, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 360-374

  Khan, Z K ^a   Katiyar, Ratna ^a   Shukla, R ^b   Kulshreshtha, R ^b   Mathur, Asha ^b  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD DONOR; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BLOOD DONORS; CHILD; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0030111294     PISSN: 09348840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0934-8840(96)80072-7     Document Type: Article

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