The clinical and environmental epidemiology of Penicillium marneffei infection in Vietnam

Thesis

Infection due to Penicillium marneffei (renamed to Talaromyces marneffei in 2011) has emerged as an important public health problem over the past two decades due to the arrival of the HIV epidemic in Asia. Since 2004, P. marneffei has become the second most common pathogen isolated from routine blood culture, after Cryptococcus neoformans, at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest referral centre for HIV care in southern Viet...

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Authors: Le, T

• Alternative title: Itraconazole or amphotericin B for penicilliosis
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-54xdmaneb
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: talaromyces marneffei; HIV; talaromycosis; opportunistic infections
• Subjects: Epidemiology; Vietnam; Talaromyces marneffei