Unusual outbreak of histoplasmosis in Mexico state residents;Brote inusual de histoplasmosis en residentes del estado de México

Gaceta Medica de Mexico

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 377-384

  Corcho Berdugo, Alexander ^a   Muñoz Hernández, Bertha ^a   Palma Cortés, Gabriel ^a   Ramírez Hernández, Amado ^a   Martínez Rivera, María ^b   Frías de León, María ^a   Reyes Montes, María ^c   Martínez Valadez, Eduarda ^a   Manjarrez Zavala, María ^a   Alfaro Ramos, Leticia ^a   Higuera Iglesias, Anjarath Lorena ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES RESPIRATORIAS   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Capsulatum; H; Histoplasma isolation in soil; Histoplasmosis epidemiology; Histoplasmosis outbreak

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; HISTOPLASMOSIS; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; INFLUENZA; MEXICO;

ADULT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 83655192549     PISSN: 00163813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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