Pulmonary histoplasmosis in three Austrian travelers after a journey to Mexico

Infection

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 282-284

  Hoenigl, M ^a   Schwetz, I ^a   Wurm, R ^a   Scheidl, S ^a   Olschewski, H ^a   Krause, R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; ITRACONAZOLE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIVER ENZYME;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGAL DETECTION; HEADACHE; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG HISTOPLASMOSIS; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; MEXICO; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SEROLOGY; SPUTUM CULTURE; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; AUSTRIA; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAVEL;

EID: 45749090166     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-007-6298-2     Document Type: Article

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