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Pathways to care and outcomes among hospitalised HIV-seropositive persons with cryptococcal meningitis in South Africa

INTRODUCTION: Cryptococcus causes 15% of AIDS-related deaths and in South Africa, with its high HIV burden, is the dominant cause of adult meningitis. Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) mortality is high, partly because patients enter care with advanced HIV disease and because of failure of integrated car...

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Autores principales:	Quan, Vanessa, Toro-Silva, Sandra, Sriruttan, Charlotte, Chetty, Verushka, Chihota, Violet, Candfield, Sophie, Vassall, Anna, Grant, Alison D., Govender, Nelesh P.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2019
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6907845/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31830060 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225742

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