AIDS-related disseminated histoplasmosis in the greater Caribbean: How frequent is it? [3]

AIDS

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 951-952

  Nacher, Mathieu ^a,b   Aznar, Christine ^a,b   Blanchet, Denis ^a,b   Demar, Magali ^a,b   El Guedj, Myriam ^a   Vaz, Tania ^a   Clyti, Emmanuel ^a,b   Carme, Bernard ^a,b   Couppié, Pierre ^a,b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE CAYENNE   (French Guiana)

^b EA 3593   (French Guiana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CLINICAL FEATURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GUYANA; HETEROSEXUALITY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INCIDENCE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CARIBBEAN REGION; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS;

EID: 33646690282     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aids.0000218568.43391.78     Document Type: Letter

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