Sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix mexicana, Portugal

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1975-1976

  Dias, Nicolina Marques ^a,b   Oliveira, Manoel Marques Evangelista ^c   Portela, Manuel Azevedo ^b   Santos, Cledir ^a   Zancope Oliveira, Rosely Maria ^c   Lima, Nelson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b CITS Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias da Saúde   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FLUCONAZOLE; GENOMIC DNA; ITRACONAZOLE; TERBINAFINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POMPHOLYX; PORTUGAL; SPOROGENESIS; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; SPOROTRICHOSIS;

EID: 84930480956     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1710.110737     Document Type: Letter

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