Histoplasmosis: Experience during outbreaks in Indianapolis and review of the literature

Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 339-354

  Wheat, Joseph ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WISHARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOCHROME P450; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; FLUCONAZOLE; FUNGUS ANTIBODY; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; HISTOPLASMIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; LIPOSOME; LIVER ENZYME; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTHRITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; ENDOCARDITIS; EPIDEMIC; ESOPHAGOBRONCHIAL FISTULA; FUNGUS CULTURE; GRANULOMA; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNODIFFUSION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDIASTINITIS; OCULAR HISTOPLASMOSIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SEROLOGY; SKIN TEST; UNITED STATES;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; INDIANA;

EID: 0030779953     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-199709000-00002     Document Type: Review

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