Development of Secondary Resistance to Fluconazole in Cryptococcus neoformans Isolated from a Patient with AIDS

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Sydney H. ALVES, Jorge O. LOPES, Jane M. COSTA, Clóvis KLOCK
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1997
• Subjects: Cryptococcus neoformans; Secondary resistance; Fluconazole; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Sida
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651997000600010; https://doaj.org/article/a22479f2b0394d6fb7a79beb0df0da3c

Cryptococcus neoformans is the fifth most common opportunistic agent of infection in patients with AIDS in the USA, exceeded only by Candida species, Pneumocystis carinii, cytomegalovirus and Mycobacterium avium1, 2, 6, 10, 11. In Brazil is the sixth, exceeded by Candida species, P. carinii, Mycobac...