Identification of the infectious source of an unusual outbreak of histoplasmosis, in a hotel in Acapulco, state of Guerrero, Mexico

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 435-441

  Taylor, Maria Lucia ^a   Ruíz Palacios, Guillermo M ^b   Reyes Montes, María Del Rocío ^a   Rodríguez Arellanes, Gabriela ^a   Carreto Binaghi, Laura E ^a   Duarte Escalante, Esperanza ^a   Hernández Ramírez, Aurora ^a   Pérez, Armando ^c   Suárez Alvarez, Roberto O ^a   Roldán Aragón, Yuri A ^b   Romero Martínez, Rafael ^a   Sahaza Cardona, Jorge H ^a   Sifuentes Osornio, José ^b   Soto Ramírez, Luis E ^b   Peña Sandoval, Gabriela R ^a  

^a Laboratorio de Inmunologia de Hongos   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Gene sequencing; Histoplasma capsulatum; Nested PCR; Outbreak; RAPD PCR

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC FERTILIZER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPOST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL ANALYSIS; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; MEXICO; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRAVEL;

EID: 24344462657     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsim.2005.05.017     Document Type: Article

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