Coccidioidal Meningitis: Disseminated disease in patients without HIV/AIDS

Medicine

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-

  Vinh, Donald C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNICITY; FILIPINO; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGE FACTORS; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; FLUCONAZOLE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MENINGITIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 78651248161     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e3182073ae3     Document Type: Letter

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