Disseminated paracoccidioidomycosis (simulating metastatic lung cancer) and Strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfestation in a steroid-treated patient

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2054-2055

  Bello, Aline Gehlen Dall ^a   Severo, Cecília Bittencourt ^b   De Oliveira, Flávio Mattos ^b   Severo, Luiz Carlos ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b Santa Casa Complexo Hospitalar   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; SILVER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HUMAN; HYPERCORTISOLISM; LUNG CANCER; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MORTALITY; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SILVER STAINING; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SWEATING; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; STEROIDS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS;

EID: 79955546430     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00025-11     Document Type: Article

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