Cat-transmitted sporotrichosis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1952-1954

  Schubach, Armando ^a   Schubach, Tânia Maria Pacheco ^a   De Lima Barros, Mônica Bastos ^a   Wanke, Bodo ^a  

^a Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BITE; BRAZIL; CAT; CAT BITE; CAT SCRATCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; SCRATCHING; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; SPOROTRICHOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 33644828105     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1112.040891     Document Type: Article

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