First Report of a Case of Meningitis Caused by Cryptococcus adeliensis in a Patient with Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 481-483

  Rimek, Dagmar ^a,c   Haase, Gerhard ^b   Lück, Andreas ^a   Casper, Jochen ^a   Podbielski, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c TLLV   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS ADELIENSIS; FEMALE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYPTOCOCCUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MENINGITIS, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

ALGAE; CRYPTOCOCCUS ADELIENSIS; FUNGI;

EID: 0347723784     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.1.481-483.2004     Document Type: Article

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