Cryptococcosis: Long-lasting presence of fungi after successful treatment [7]

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 320-321

  Kobayashi, Miwa ^a   Murata, Koji ^a   Orimo Hiroshi, Hiroshi ^a   Tokura, Yoshiki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; AZATHIOPRINE; ITRACONAZOLE; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FOLLOW UP; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUTROPHIL; PHLEGMON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN ULCER; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEG ULCER; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3242735829     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00015550410025868     Document Type: Letter

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