Improving laboratory techniques to detect M. tuberculosis complex and C. neoformans as the causative agents of chronic meningitis in cerebrospinal fluid of adult patients.

Improving laboratory techniques to detect M. tuberculosis complex and C. neoformans as the causative agents of chronic meningitis in cerebrospinal fluid of adult patients.

Thesis (MScMedSc (Pathology. Medical Microbiology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. === ENGLISH ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and Cryptococcus neoformans are the most common causes of chronic meningitis in South Africa. Conventional microbiology has limited utility in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prince, Yvonne
Other Authors: Wasserman, Elizabeth
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch 2010
Subjects:
Chronic meningitis
Laboratory techniques
Dissertations > Medicine
Theses > Medicine
Cerebrospinal fluid > Examination
Cryptococcus neoformans > Examination
Meningitis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis > Examination
Pathology
Medical Microbiology
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4110

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