Acute respiratory failure associated with cryptococcosis in patients with AIDS: Analysis of predictive factors

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1231-1237

  Visnegarwala, Fehmida ^a   Graviss, Edward A ^a   Lacke, Christine E ^a   Dural, A Tarkan ^a   Johnson, Philip C ^a   Atmar, Robert L ^a   Hamill, Richard J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN DISEASE;

EID: 0032450164     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514984     Document Type: Article

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