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A prospective descriptive study of cryptococcal meningitis in HIV uninfected patients in Vietnam - high prevalence of Cryptococcus neoformans var grubii in the absence of underlying disease
- Abstract:
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Background: Most cases of cryptococcal meningitis occur in patients with HIV infection: the course and outcome of disease in the apparently immunocompetent is much more poorly understood. We describe a cohort of HIV uninfected Vietnamese patients with cryptococcal meningitis in whom underlying disease is uncommon, and relate presenting features of patients and the characteristics of the infecting species to outcome.
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Infectious Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 10
- Article number:
- 199
- Publication date:
- 2010-07-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2010-07-09
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2334
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- pubs:72374
- Source identifiers:
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72374
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Chau et al
- Copyright date:
- 2010
- Notes:
- © 2010 Chau et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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