Reply to Torres and Suárez

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 309-310

  Sousa, Anastácio Q ^a,b   Pompeu, Margarida M L ^b   Frutuoso, Mércia S ^c,d   Moraes, Elisabete A ^b   Pearson, Richard D ^e  

^a Hospital São José for Infectious Diseases   (Brazil)

^b Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^d Christus School of Medicine   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCONAZOLE;

DOG; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHODIDAE; RODENT; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 84864127763     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis399     Document Type: Letter

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