False-negative cerebrospinal fluid cryptococcal latex agglutination tests for patients with culture-positive cryptococcal meningitis.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on September 01, 1993

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B P Currie1, L F Freundlich, M A Soto, A Casadevall

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1: Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461.

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