Cryptococcosis and idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia

Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 78-92

  Zonios, Dimitrios I ^a   Falloon, Judith ^a   Huang, Chiung Yu ^a   Chaitt, Doreen ^b   Bennett, John E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUCOSE; ITRACONAZOLE; PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DERMATOME; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC CD4 LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEOCYTOSIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOSE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; T-LYMPHOCYTOPENIA, IDIOPATHIC CD4-POSITIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247620670     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/md.0b013e31803b52f5     Document Type: Article

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