Histoplasmosis outbreak in Tamboril cave—Minas Gerais state, Brazil()

In this study, we report four cases of Histoplasma capsulatum infection in eight biologists who made an expedition to determine the prevalence of this fungus in a cave localized in the northwest of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. This case report demonstrates the importance of evaluating the H. capsulat...

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Autores principales: Rocha-silva, Fabiana, Figueiredo, Sônia M., Silveira, Thamara T.S., Assunção, Claudia B., Campolina, Sabrina S., Pena-barbosa, João P.P., Rotondo, Alexandre, Caligiorne, Rachel B.
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Publicado: Elsevier 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24567897
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2013.12.002
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author Rocha-silva, Fabiana
Figueiredo, Sônia M.
Silveira, Thamara T.S.
Assunção, Claudia B.
Campolina, Sabrina S.
Pena-barbosa, João P.P.
Rotondo, Alexandre
Caligiorne, Rachel B.
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description In this study, we report four cases of Histoplasma capsulatum infection in eight biologists who made an expedition to determine the prevalence of this fungus in a cave localized in the northwest of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. This case report demonstrates the importance of evaluating the H. capsulatum presence in Brazilian caves before opening to public visitations.
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spelling pubmed-39309572014-02-24 Histoplasmosis outbreak in Tamboril cave—Minas Gerais state, Brazil() Rocha-silva, Fabiana Figueiredo, Sônia M. Silveira, Thamara T.S. Assunção, Claudia B. Campolina, Sabrina S. Pena-barbosa, João P.P. Rotondo, Alexandre Caligiorne, Rachel B. Med Mycol Case Rep Article In this study, we report four cases of Histoplasma capsulatum infection in eight biologists who made an expedition to determine the prevalence of this fungus in a cave localized in the northwest of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. This case report demonstrates the importance of evaluating the H. capsulatum presence in Brazilian caves before opening to public visitations. Elsevier 2013-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3930957/ /pubmed/24567897 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2013.12.002 Text en © 2014 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Figueiredo, Sônia M.
Silveira, Thamara T.S.
Assunção, Claudia B.
Campolina, Sabrina S.
Pena-barbosa, João P.P.
Rotondo, Alexandre
Caligiorne, Rachel B.
Histoplasmosis outbreak in Tamboril cave—Minas Gerais state, Brazil()
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title_fullStr Histoplasmosis outbreak in Tamboril cave—Minas Gerais state, Brazil()
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title_short Histoplasmosis outbreak in Tamboril cave—Minas Gerais state, Brazil()
title_sort histoplasmosis outbreak in tamboril cave—minas gerais state, brazil()
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24567897
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2013.12.002
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