Independent Association between Rate of Clearance of Infection and Clinical Outcome of HIV‐Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis: Analysis of a Combined Cohort of 262 Patients
Open Access
- 1 September 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 49 (5), 702-709
- https://doi.org/10.1086/604716
Abstract
Background. Progress in therapy for cryptococcal meningitis has been slow because of the lack of a suitable marker of treatment response. Previously,Keywords
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