Hemoplasma infection in HIV-positive patient, Brazil

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1922-1924

  Dos Santos, Andrea Pires ^a,g   Dos Santos, Rodrigo Pires ^a   Biondo, Alexander W ^b,c   Dora, José M ^a   Goldani, Luciano Z ^a   De Oliveira, Simone Tostes ^a   De Sá Guimarães, Ana Marcia ^d   Timenetsky, Jorge ^d   De Morais, Helio Autran ^e   González, Félix H D ^a   Messick, Joanne B ^f  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAZIL; CASE REPORT; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS LIKE INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PURPURA; RICKETTSIOSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VIRUS LOAD;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BRAZIL; CAT DISEASES; CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE; CATS; HIV INFECTIONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 57049168712     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1412.080964     Document Type: Article

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