Hospitalizations for endemic mycoses: A population-based national study

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 822-825

  Chu, Jaclyn H ^a   Feudtner, Chris ^a,b   Heydon, Kateri ^a   Walsh, Thomas J ^d   Zaoutis, Theoklis E ^a,b,c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CHILD; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644848311     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500405     Document Type: Article

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