Identification of fungal diseases at necropsy

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 208, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 549-552

  Colombo, Tatiana Elias ^a   Soares, Márcia Maria Costa Nunes ^b   D'ávilla, Solange Corrêa Garcia Pires ^c   Nogueira, Mara Correa Lelles ^c   De Almeida, Margarete Teresa Gottardo ^c  

^a Medicina de São José   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^c FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DE SÃO JOSÉ DO RIO PRETO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Fungal diseases

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADRENAL CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; AUTOPSY; BONE MARROW APLASIA; CANDIDIASIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENCEPHALIC CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; MYCOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS;

AUTOPSY; BRAZIL; CANDIDIASIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOSES;

EID: 84865299711     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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