Pulmonary cryptococcosis in solid organ transplant recipients: Clinical relevance of serum cryptococcal antigen

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Singh, Nina ^a,x   Alexander, Barbara D ^b   Lortholary, Olivier ^s   Dromer, Françoise ^s   Gupta, Krishan L ^u   John, George T ^v   Del Busto, Ramon ^c   Klintmalm, Goran B ^d   Somani, Jyoti ^e   Lyon, G Marshall ^e   Pursell, Kenneth ^f   Stosor, Valentina ^g   Muñoz, Patricia ^t   Limaye, Ajit P ^h   Kalil, Andre C ⁱ   Pruett, Timothy L ^j   Garcia Diaz, Julia ^l   Humar, Atul ^q,w   Houston, Sally ^m   House, Andrew A ^r   Wray, Dannah ^o   Orloff, Susan ^p   Dowdy, Lorraine A ⁿ   Fisher, Robert A ^k   Heitman, Joseph ^b   Wagener, Marilyn M ^a   Husain, Shahid ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^k VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^o MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^p OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^r UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^s HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^t HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^u POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^v CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^w UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^x VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN TITER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; LUNG CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LESION; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; COHORT STUDIES; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 39449095504     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/524738     Document Type: Article

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