Human T lymphotropic virus 1 and paracoccidioidomycosis: A probable association in Latin America

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 250-251

  León, Mey ^a   Alave, Jorge ^c   Bustamante, Beatriz ^a,c   Cok, Jaime ^b   Gotuzzo, Eduardo ^a,c   Seas, Carlos ^a,c  

^a Sociedad Peruana de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Tropicales   (Peru)

^b HOSPITAL NACIONAL CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B DEOXYCHOLATE; ITRACONAZOLE; IVERMECTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEPSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULCER; URINALYSIS; BIOPSY; BRONCHUS; COLON; COMPLICATION; CYTOCHEMISTRY; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; INTESTINE MUCOSA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH MUCOSA; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; PATHOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; BRONCHI; COLON; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LATIN AMERICA; LUNG; MALE; MOUTH MUCOSA; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77954719019     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/653679     Document Type: Letter

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