An elderly man with immunosuppression, shortness of breath, and eosinophilia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Abdalla, Jehad ^a   Saad, Mustafa ^a   Myers, James W ^a,b   Moorman, Jonathan P ^a,b  

^a East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN; RITUXIMAB; STEROID;

AGED; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; EOSINOPHILIA; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; NIGHT SWEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; STEROID THERAPY; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS HYPERINFECTION SYNDROME; THRUSH; WHEEZING;

EID: 18244363597     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/429732     Document Type: Article

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