High Cryptococcal Antigen Titers in Blood Are Predictive of Subclinical Cryptococcal Meningitis Among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patients
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Cryptococcal meningitis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients in Harare, Zimbabwe.
A prospective observational study was conducted over a 10-month period to determine the clinical and laboratory manifestations of cryptococcal meningitis in Zimbabwe, a country where antifungal agents are not widely available. Eighty-nine patients with cryptococcal meningitis (median age, 34 years; range, 11-63 years; 56 males) were identified from 406 patients for whom a clinical diagnosis of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix872