Histoplasma, blastomyces, coccidioides, and other dimorphic fungi causing systemic mycoses

Manual of Clinical Microbiology: Tenth Edition

Volumn 2-2, Issue , 2022, Pages 1902-1918

  Brandt, Mary E ^a   Gomez, Beatriz L ^b   Warnock, David W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Unidad de Biología Celular y Molecular   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Blastomyces dermatitidis; Blastomycosis; Coccidioides Species; Coccidioidomycosis; Emmonsia Species; Histoplasma capsulatum; Histoplasmosis; Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85188876367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1128/9781555816728.ch120     Document Type: Chapter

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