%0 Journal Article
%T Histoplasmosis in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: a 21-year experience
%A SEVERO Luiz Carlos
%A OLIVEIRA Fl¨˘vio de Mattos
%A IRION Klaus
%A PORTO Nelson da Silva
%J Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de S£żo Paulo
%D 2001
%I Instituto de Medicina Tropical
%X Of 156 cases of histoplasmosis observed in the State of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), during a 21-year period (1978-1999) 137 were included in this study. Sixty-seven per cent of the patients had hematogeneous disseminated histoplasmosis, 24% had a self-limited syndrome (acute pulmonary histoplasmosis, histoplasmoma or primary pulmonary lymph node complex), and 9 per cent had chronic pulmonary histoplasmosis. Clinical, mycological, and epidemiological data were reviewed and commented.
%K Histoplasmosis
%K Histoplasma capsulatum
%K HIV infection
%K Brazil
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