Population-based surveillance and a case-control study of risk factors for endemic lymphocutaneous sporotrichosis in Peru

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 34-39

  Lyon, G Marshall ^a,e   Zurita, S ^b   Casquero, J ^b   Holgado, W ^c   Guevara, J ^d   Brandt, M E ^a   Douglas, S ^b   Shutt, K ^a   Warnock, D W ^a   Hajjeh, R A ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Peru)

^c Centro Medico Santa Teresa   (Peru)

^d Direccion de Salud de Apurimac   (Peru)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSE DUST; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SOIL; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; SPOROTRICHOSIS; WOOD;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERU; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SPOROTRICHOSIS;

EID: 0037232746     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/345437     Document Type: Article

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