Burden of serious fungal infections in Trinidad and Tobago

Mycoses

Volumn 58, Issue , 2015, Pages 80-84

  Denning, David W ^a,b   Gugnani, Harish C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c SAINT JAMES SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Anguilla)

Author keywords

Aspergillosis; Fungus; Incidence; Pneumocystis; Prevalence; Tinea

Indexed keywords

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN; AIDS PATIENT; AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CANDIDEMIA; CARIBBEAN; CHILD; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS CANDIDIASIS; EXOPHIALA JEANSELMEI; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INCIDENCE; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; KERATOMYCOSIS; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; MYCOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PERITONITIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SEVERE ASTHMA WITH FUNGAL SENSITIZATION; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THRUSH; TINEA CAPITIS; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ASPERGILLOSIS, ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; COST OF ILLNESS; DERMATOMYCOSES; HIV INFECTIONS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; PRESCHOOL CHILD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ASPERGILLOSIS, ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY; ASTHMA; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; DERMATOMYCOSES; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; PREVALENCE; TINEA CAPITIS; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84943398985     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/myc.12394     Document Type: Article

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