Pulmonary coccidioidomycosis found in healthy Japanese individuals

Respirology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 252-256

  Kishi, Kazuma ^a   Fujii, Takeshi ^a   Takaya, Hisashi ^a   Miyamoto, Atsushi ^a   Kurosaki, Atsuko ^a   Kohno, Tadasu ^a   Yoshimura, Kunihiko ^a  

^a TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coccidioidomycosis; Fungal infection; High resolution computed tomography; PCR; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPITHELIOID CELL; FUNGAL ENDOSPORE; GRANULOMA; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; LUNG NODULE; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLEURA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SEROLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40749139020     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2008.01232.x     Document Type: Article

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