Histoplasmosis among human immunodeficiency virus-infected people in Europe: Report of 4 cases and review of the literature

Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 22-36

  Antinori, Spinello ^a,b   Magni, Carlo ^b   Nebuloni, Manuela ^b   Parravicini, Carlo ^b   Corbellino, Mario ^a   Sollima, Salvatore ^a   Galimberti, Laura ^a   Ridolfo, Anna Lisa ^a   Wheat, L Joseph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c MIRAVISTA DIAGNOSTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFTRIAXONE; CLARITHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; ITRACONAZOLE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; TREATMENT DURATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EUROPE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 33644947546     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.md.0000199934.38120.d4     Document Type: Review

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