Acute pulmonary histoplasmosis from Ghana

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 286-289

  de Vries, P J ^a   Koolen, M G J ^b   Mulder, M M S ^b   Kortbeek, L M ^c  

^a Tropical Medicine and AIDS   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute pulmonary histoplasmosis; Ghana; Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAT; BATH; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEVER; GHANA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG MYCOSIS; LUNG NODULE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALARIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAVEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; CHIROPTERA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; GHANA; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TRAVEL;

EID: 33746899697     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2005.10.004     Document Type: Article

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