Blastomycosis in urban southeastern Wisconsin

Wisconsin Medical Journal

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 407-410

  Lemke, Melissa A ^a,b   Baumgardner, Dennis J ^a,b,c   Brummitt, Charles F ^b,d   Swain, Geoffrey R ^a,b,e   Buggy, Brian P ^b,d   Meidl, John J ^d   Baeseman, Zachary J ^b   Schreiber, Andrea ^a,b  

^a Center for Urban Population Health   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c AURORA HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^d Infectious Disease Associates   (United States)

^e City of Milwaukee Health Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CAMPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FISHING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; LAKE; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOUNTAINEERING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; STREAM (RIVER); SUBURBAN AREA; TELEPHONE; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WETLAND; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; URBAN POPULATION; WISCONSIN;

EID: 77449092507     PISSN: 10981861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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