Epidemiology of Cryptococcus and cryptococcosis in China

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 78, Issue , 2015, Pages 7-15

  Fang, Wei ^a   Fa, Zhenzong ^a   Liao, Wanqing ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cryptococcosis; Ecology; Epidemiology; Mortality; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FILOBASIDIELLA; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRASPINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. GRUBII; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CHINA; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84937837842     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2014.10.017     Document Type: Article

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