Possibility of in-hospital infection by Cryptococcus neoformans in patients with AIDS Posibilidad de infección intra - hospitalaria por Cryptococcus neoformans en pacientes con SIDA

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Maria Elena Rustan, Héctor R. Rubinstein, Carmela Siciliano, Diana T. Masih
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1992
• Subjects: Cryptococcus neoformans; AIDS; Meningitis; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Alta; Arctic; Hongo; Sida
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651992000500002; https://doaj.org/article/23eaf672bf2a437dabf93094306aa620

The objective of the present work was to carry out a survey of soil samples taken from different areas of a hospital of infectious disease located in the city of Cordoba, where three AIDS patients were hospitalized during different periods in the same ward. The three of them returned with meningeal...