Histoplasmosis and blastomycosis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1996, Pages

  Bradsher, Robert W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE;

BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG MYCOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030017391     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.supplement_2.s102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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