Human and canine pulmonary blastomycosis, North Carolina, 2001-2002

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1242-1244

  MacDonald, Pia D M ^a,b,d,e   Langley, Rick L ^b   Gerkin, Susan R ^c   Torok, Michelle R ^d   MacCormack, J Newton ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b North Carolina Division of Public Health   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; DOG; DOG DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG MYCOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 33750595547     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1708.050781     Document Type: Article

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