| isolation of cryptococcus neoformans from houses of aids-associated cryptococcosis patients in bujumbura (burundi). | cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans, which is responsible for aids-associated cryptococcosis in bujumbura, was isolated in the domestic environment of seven out of 20 patients with aids-associated cryptococcosis. the findings prove that in his own domestic environment, the hiv-positive patient in central africa is frequently exposed to the yeast and these observations lead us to insist on the suitability of carrying out a systematic survey by means of soluble antigens-sensitized latex in eve ... | 1989 | 2502153 |
| aids-associated cryptococcosis in bujumbura, burundi: an epidemiological study. | cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans was isolated from domestic dust in 54% of houses occupied or recently occupied by aids+ cryptococcosis patients and in 20% of control houses randomly chosen in bujumbura, burundi. it was not isolated from wards of similar patients in the university hospital. this seems to prove that patients could not contaminate their own environment and that the presence of c. neoformans var. neoformans had another origin. in 40% of the cases, patients admitted contact w ... | 1991 | 2061793 |