Coccidioides posadasii infection in bats, Brazil

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 668-670

  de Aguiar Cordeiro, Rossana ^a   de Castro e Silva, Kylvia Rocha ^a,b   Brilhante, Raimunda Sâmia Nogueira ^a   Moura, Francisco Bergson Pinheiro ^d   Duarte, Naylê Francelino Holanda ^d   de Farias Marques, Francisca Jakelyne ^a   de Aguiar Cordeiro, Rebecca ^a   Filho, Renato Evando Moreira ^a   de Araújo, Roberto Wagner Bezerra ^a   de Jesus Pinheiro Gomes Bandeira, Tereza ^a   Rocha, Marcos Fábio Gadelha ^a,c   Sidrim, José Júlio Costa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^d Serviço de Atendimento Móvel de Urgência Fortaleza   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; BRAZIL; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; IMMUNODIFFUSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; BRAZIL; CHIROPTERA; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; LIVER; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MICE;

EID: 84858692098     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1804.111641     Document Type: Article

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