Fungus ball in HIV-infected patients

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 345-348

  Guazzelli, Luciana Silva ^a,b   Unis, Gisela ^c   Xavier, Melissa Orzechowski ^d   Severo, Cecília Bittencourt ^a,b   Picon, Pedro Dornelles ^c   Severo, Luiz Carlos ^a,e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL SANTA RITA   (Brazil)

^c Sanatorio Partenon Hospital   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^e CNPQ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

AIDS; Aspergilloma; Aspergillus fumigatus; Fungus ball; Mycetoma; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIDANOSINE; ITRACONAZOLE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGUS BALL; FUNGUS CULTURE; HEMOPTYSIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNODIFFUSION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ASPERGILLOSIS; CASE REPORT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG MYCOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 85047684898     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652009000600007     Document Type: Article

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