Disseminated sporotrichosis and Sporothrix schenckii fungemia as the initial presentation of human immunodeficiency virus infection

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1403-1406

  Al Tawfiq, Jaffar A ^a   Wools, Kara K ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; LAMIVUDINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; SPOROTRICHOSIS; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS;

EID: 0031810652     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516356     Document Type: Article

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