Fever and human immunodeficiency virus infection as sentinels for emerging mycobacterial and fungal bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients ≥15 years old, Bangkok

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-92

  Archibald, Lennox K ^a   McDonald, L Clifford ^a   Rheanpumikankit, Sunthorn ^b   Tansuphaswadikul, Somsit ^b   Chaovanich, Achara ^b   Eampokalap, Boonchuay ^b   Banerjee, Shallen N ^a   Reller, L Barth ^c   Jarvis, William R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Bamrasnaradura Hospital   (Thailand)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGEMIA; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY; THAILAND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; COHORT STUDIES; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGEMIA; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; THAILAND;

EID: 0032977045     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314836     Document Type: Article

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