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Healthcare Costs and Life-years Gained From Treatments Within the Advancing Cryptococcal Meningitis Treatment for Africa (ACTA) Trial on Cryptococcal Meningitis: A Comparison of Antifungal Induction Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa

BACKGROUND: Mortality from cryptoccocal meningitis remains high. The ACTA trial demonstrated that, compared with 2 weeks of amphotericin B (AmB) plus flucystosine (5FC), 1 week of AmB and 5FC was associated with lower mortality and 2 weeks of oral flucanozole (FLU) plus 5FC was non-inferior. Here, w...

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Autores principales: Chen, Tao, Mwenge, Lawrence, Lakhi, Shabir, Chanda, Duncan, Mwaba, Peter, Molloy, Síle F, Gheorghe, Adrian, Griffiths, Ulla K, Heyderman, Robert S, Kanyama, Cecilia, Kouanfack, Charles, Mfinanga, Sayoki, Chan, Adrienne K, Temfack, Elvis, Kivuyo, Sokoine, Hosseinipour, Mina C, Lortholary, Olivier, Loyse, Angela, Jaffar, Shabbar, Harrison, Thomas S, Niessen, Louis W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6669289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30863852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy971