Early mycological treatment failure in AIDS-associated cryptococcal meningitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 82-92

  Robinson, Philip A ^b   Bauer, Madeline ^a   Leal, Mary Ann E ^a   Evans, Susan G ^a   Holtom, Paul D ^a   Diamond, DeAnn M ^a   Leedom, John M ^a   Larsen, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Infectious Disease Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCYTOSINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUTROPENIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0032990104     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515074     Document Type: Article

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