Antifungal susceptibilities of clinical and environmental isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans in goiânia city, Goiás, Brasil Suscetibilidade antifúngica de isolados clínicos e ambientais de Cryptococcus neoformans na cidade de Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil

We evaluated the antifungal activities of amphotericin B, fluconazole, itraconazole and voriconazole in 70 Cryptococcus neoformans strains obtained from cerebrospinal fluid from AIDS patients and 40 C. neoformans strains isolated from the environment. Four clinical isolates were identified as C. neo...

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Main Authors: Lúcia Kioko Hasimoto Souza, Orionalda de Fátima Lisboa Fernandes, Cláudia Castelo Branco Artiaga Kobayashi, Xisto Sena Passos, Carolina Rodrigues Costa, Janine Aquino Lemos, Ary Henrique Souza-Júnior, Maria do Rosário Rodrigues Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2005-10-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652005000500003