Clinical and evolutionary characteristics of four patients with pulmonary histoplasmosis reported in the paraíba paulista valley region;Características clínicas evolutivas de quatro pacientes com histoplasmose pulmonar encontrado na região do vale do paraíba

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 599-601

  da Costa Zöllner, Maria Stella Amorim ^a   Pinto, Karla Mayra ^b   Rezende, Carvalho ^b   Birman, Simone ^a   Elias, Chelna Paolichi Ferro ^c   Arisawa, Emília Ângela Loschiavo ^d   Santos, Maria Angela Barguil Digigov Vilella ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAUBATÉ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Hospital Dr José de Carvalho Florence   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA E DESENVOLVIMENTO   (Brazil)

^e Prefecture of Taubaté   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Histoplasmosis; Pulmonary fungal disease

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ITRACONAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BRAZIL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEARTBURN; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MYALGIA; PAPULE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; SEROLOGY; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 78649413541     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0037-86822010000500028     Document Type: Article

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