Severe histoplasmosis in travelers to Nicaragua

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1322-1325

  Weinberg, Michelle ^a   Weeks, Julia ^b   Lance Parker, Susan ^c   Traeger, Marc ^a,d   Wiersma, Steven ^d   Phan, Quyen ^e   Dennison, David ^f   MacDonald, Pia ^a,g   Lindsley, Mark ^a   Guarner, Jeannette ^a   Connolly, Patricia ^h   Cetron, Martin ^a   Hajjeh, Rana ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Archbold Urgent Care Center   (United States)

^c GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES   (United States)

^d FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e CDC   (United States)

^f Highlands Cashiers Hospital   (United States)

^g North Carolina Division of Public Health   (United States)

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ITRACONAZOLE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAT; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNODIFFUSION; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; NICARAGUA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SERUM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141866768     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0910.030049     Document Type: Article

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