Laboratory diagnosis of histoplasmosis

Clinical Microbiology Newsletter

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 95-99

  Moser, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

AIRBORNE INFECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DNA PROBE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; IMMUNE STATUS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 0033563599     PISSN: 01964399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-4399(00)80042-2     Document Type: Review

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