Prostatic and central nervous system histoplasmosis in an immunocompetent host: Case report and review of the prostatic histoplasmosis literature

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 595-598

  Mawhorter, Steven D ^a   Curley, Gerald V ^a   Kursh, Elroy D ^a   Farver, Carol E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEVER; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; BRAIN DISEASES; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC DISEASES; URINE;

EID: 0034034224     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313699     Document Type: Article

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