Disseminated histoplasmosis and AIDS at the University Hospital of the West Indies: A case report

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 126-130

  Nicholson, Alison M ^a   Rainford, L ^a   Elliott, V ^a   Christie, C D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCONAZOLE;

ABSCESS; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; DISEASE COURSE; DISORIENTATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; JAMAICA; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHADENITIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ULCER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; JAMAICA;

EID: 2942650255     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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