Does the capsule component of the Cryptococcus neoformans glucuronoxylomannan impair transendothelial migration of leukocytes in patients with cryptococcal meningitis?

J Infect Dis. 1998 Oct;178(4):1231-2. doi: 10.1086/515708.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Cerebrospinal Fluid / cytology
  • Chemotaxis, Leukocyte
  • Endothelium, Vascular*
  • HIV Infections / complications
  • Humans
  • Leukocyte Count
  • Leukocytes / cytology*
  • Meningitis, Cryptococcal / cerebrospinal fluid*
  • Meningitis, Cryptococcal / complications
  • Meningitis, Cryptococcal / immunology
  • Polysaccharides / blood*
  • Retrospective Studies

Substances

  • Polysaccharides
  • glucuronoxylomannan