Geographic distribution of endemic fungal infections among older persons, United States

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1664-1669

  Baddley, John W ^a,b   Winthrop, Kevin L ^c   Patkar, Nivedita M ^a   Delzell, Elizabeth ^a   Beukelman, Timothy ^a   Xie, Fenglong ^a   Chen, Lang ^a   Curtis, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLASTOMYCOSIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; RANDOM SAMPLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BLASTOMYCOSIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052152003     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1709.101987     Document Type: Article

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