The burden of serious human fungal infections in Brazil

Mycoses

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 145-150

  Giacomazzi, Juliana ^a   Baethgen, Ludmila ^a   Carneiro, Lilian C ^a   Millington, Maria Adelaide ^b   Denning, David W ^c   Colombo, Arnaldo L ^d   Pasqualotto, Alessandro C ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE CIÊNCIAS DA SAÚDE DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE   (Brazil)

^c MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e Hospital Dom Vicente Scherer   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazilian fungal burden; Epidemiology; Fungal infections; Mycology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIDS PATIENT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASTHMA; BRAZIL; CANCER PATIENT; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORBIDITY; MYCOSIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; COMPLICATION; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; HIV INFECTIONS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAZIL; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958601473     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/myc.12427     Document Type: Article

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