Sporotrichosis in Peru: Description of an area of hyperendemicity

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-70

  Pappas, Peter G ^a,d   Tellez, Ildefonso ^a   Deep, Alexandria E ^a   Nolasco, Delia ^c   Holgado, Walter ^c   Bustamante, Beatriz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^c Centro Medico Santa Teresa   (Peru)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; POTASSIUM IODIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIC; FACE; FEMALE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFECTION; SPOROTRICHOSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NAPHTHALENES; PERU; POTASSIUM IODIDE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTRICHOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033984943     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313607     Document Type: Article

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