Spook house sporotrichosis: A point-source outbreak of sporotrichosis associated with hay bale props in a Halloween haunted house

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 1885-1887

  Dooley, David P ^a   Bostic, Pamela S ^b   Beckius, Miriam L ^a  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GRASS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN INFECTION; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; SPOROTRICHOSIS;

EID: 0030866834     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.157.16.1885     Document Type: Article

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