Prevalence of fungal meningitis among HIV positive & negative subjects in indore (MP State)

Indian Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 325-329

  Jaiswal, S P B ^a   Hemwani, N ^a   Sharma, N ^a   Athale, S ^a   Chitnis, D S ^a  

^a CHOITHRAM HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INDIAN INK;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRIFUGATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOTIC MENINGITIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; STAINING; AGED; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; CANDIDIASIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; INDIA; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CANDIDIASIS; COMORBIDITY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGITIS, FUNGAL; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0036666746     PISSN: 00195359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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