Electron microscopy reveals fungal cells within tumor tissue from two African patients with AIDS-associated Kaposi sarcoma

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 187-192

  Marquart, Karl Horst ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AIDS associated Kaposi sarcoma; Electron microscopy; Fungal cells

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AFRICA; AIDS PATIENT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL WALL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; FUNGAL CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGIC SKIN REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MALE; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANDIDIASIS; TUMOR BIOPSY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 33745904992     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: 15210758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01913120500520960     Document Type: Article

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