Twelve years of coccidioidomycosis in Ceará State, Northeast Brazil: epidemiologic and diagnostic aspects

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-72

  de Aguiar Cordeiro, Rossana ^a,b   Brilhante, Raimunda Sâmia Nogueira ^a   Rocha, Marcos Fábio Gadelha ^a,b   Bandeira, Silviane Praciano ^a,b   Fechine, Maria Auxiliadora Bezerra ^a   de Camargo, Zoilo Pires ^c   Sidrim, José Júlio Costa ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Coccidioidomycosis; Diagnosis; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDES POSADASII; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 71249145317     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.09.016     Document Type: Article

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