Multifocal sporotrichosis with meningeal involvement in a patient with AIDS

Medical Mycology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 187-190

  Silva Vergara, Mario León ^a,b   Maneira, Frederico Ricardo Zago ^a   De Oliveira, Renata Mônica ^a   Santos, Celso Tadeu Barbosa ^a   Etchebehere, Renata Margarida ^a   Adad, Sheila Jorge ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TRIÂNGULO MINEIRO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

AIDS; Meningeal sporotrichosis; Sporothrix schenckii

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ITRACONAZOLE; PYRIMETHAMINE SULFADIAZINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AUTOPSY; BONE MARROW; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EPIDIDYMIS; GRANULOMATOSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MENINX DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PANCREAS; REVIEW; SKIN; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; SPOROTRICHOSIS; TESTIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BRAZIL; HUMANS; ITRACONAZOLE; MALE; MENINGITIS, FUNGAL; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTRICHOSIS;

SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII;

EID: 15944391325     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780500035904     Document Type: Review

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