Markedly elevated serum lactate dehydrogenase levels are a clue to the diagnosis of disseminated histoplasmosis in patients with AIDS

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 942-944

  Corcoran, Gavin R ^a,b   Al Abdely, Hail ^a   Flanders, Christopher D ^a   Geimer, Jone ^a   Patterson, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b North East Arkansas Clinic ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LUNG INFILTRATE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030950541     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.5.942     Document Type: Article

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