Disseminated Penicillium marneffei infection in a HIV-infected patient [2];Infección diseminada por Penicillium marneffei en un paciente infectado por el VIH

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 36-37

  Berbegal, Juan ^a   Martínez, Pedro ^a   Femenia, Miguel ^a   Serrat, Concepción ^a  

^a HOSPITAL MARINA ALTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CHINA; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SKIN DEFECT; SPAIN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0038486633     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13048465     Document Type: Letter

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