Antifungal activity in human cerebrospinal fluid and plasma after intravenous administration of Allium sativum
- 1 April 1990
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 34 (4), 651-653
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.34.4.651
Abstract
Commercial Allium sativum (garlic) extract was given intravenously to two patients with cryptococcal meningitis and three patients with other types of meningitis. Plasma titers of anti-Cryptococcus neoformans activity rose twofold over preinfusion titers. Anti-C. neoformans activity was detected in four of five cerebrospinal fluid samples but not in pooled normal cerebrospinal fluid.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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