Neurocryptococcosis: Diagnosis by PCR method

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 203-207

  Paschoal, Regina Célia ^a   Hirata, Mário Hiroyuki ^a   Hirata, Rosário Crespo ^a   Melhem, Márcia De Souza Carvalho ^b   Dias, Amanda Latercia Tranches ^a   Paula, Claudete Rodrigues ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

AIDS; Cryptococcosis; Cryptococcus neoformans; Diagnostic methods; PCR

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; INDIAN INK; RIBOSOME RNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4544316219     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652004000400006     Document Type: Article

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