Blastomycosis: Gilchrist's disease revisited

Current Clinical Topics in Infectious Diseases

Volumn , Issue 22, 2002, Pages 61-77

  Pappas, Peter G ^a   Dismukes, William E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; BONE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DOG; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG MYCOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; BONE AND BONES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; DERMATOMYCOSES; DOGS; FEMALE; FEMALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036981485     PISSN: 01953842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
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