A case of pulmonary cryptococcosis followed by pleuritis in an apparently immunocompetent patient during fluconazole treatment

Medical Mycology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 595-599

  Izumikawa, Koichi ^a   Zhao, Yong ^a   Motoshima, Kohei ^a   Takazono, Takahiro ^a   Saijo, Tomomi ^a   Kurihara, Sintaro ^a   Nakamura, Shigeki ^a   Miyazaki, Taiga ^a   Seki, Masafumi ^a   Kakeya, Hiroshi ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Yanagihara, Katsunori ^a   Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu ^a   Hayashi, Tomayoshi ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus; Fluconazole; Pleuritis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; ITRACONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE DURATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; FOREIGN BODY; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; NAUSEA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURISY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RETREATMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FLUCONAZOLE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLEURISY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 51649125998     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780802074494     Document Type: Article

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