Common reservoirs for Penicillium marneffei infection in humans and rodents, China

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 209-214

  Cao, Cunwei ^a   Liang, Ling ^a   Wang, Wenjuan ^a   Luo, Hong ^a   Huang, Shaobiao ^b   Liu, Donghua ^a   Xu, Jianping ^c   Henk, Daniel A ^d   Fisher, Matthew C ^d  

^a First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University   (Taiwan)

^b The Fourth Hospital of Nanning   (Taiwan)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIOSIS; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; PREVALENCE; RODENT; SAMPLING; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ANIMALS; CHINA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MYCOSES; PENICILLIUM; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA;

EID: 79551625529     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1702.100718     Document Type: Article

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