Cryptococosis and HIV/AIDS: A review of 21 cases reported in the Tropical Diseases Centre, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam);Méningite à Cryptococcus neoformans chez les patients infectés par le VIH/sida dans le contexte du Centre des maladies tropicales, Ho Chi Minh-ville (Vietnam)

Cahiers Sante

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 225-229

  Tuyet, Huynh Thi Xuan ^a,b,c   Chi, Nguyen Huu ^a   Quang, Vo Minh ^a   Odermatt Biays, Sophie ^b   Degrémont, Antoine ^b   Malvy, Denis ^c  

^a Centre des Maladies Tropicales (CMT)   (Viet Nam)

^b Institut Francophone Pour la Medecine Tropicale IFMT   (Laos)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

AIDS; Cryptococcus neoformans; Meningitis; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CD4 ANTIGEN; FLUCONAZOLE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVULSION; COUGHING; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NECK MUSCLE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHOTOPHOBIA; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SKIN DEFECT; SUPERINFECTION; SYMPTOM; THRUSH; VIET NAM; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 1542288405     PISSN: 11575999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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