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Cryptococcosis in the AIDS era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

D. W. R. Mackenzie
D. W. R. Mackenzie
Affiliation:
Mycological Reference Laboratory. Central Public Health Laboratory, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5HT
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Cryptococcosis is not a commonly diagnosed disease. Records of its occurrence in Britain are virtually non-existent before 1945. when the Mycological Reference Laboratory (MRL) of the Public Health Laboratory Service was first established

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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 102 , Issue 3 , June 1989 , pp. 361 - 363
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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