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SUBMITTER: Dantas KC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4150115 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dantas Kátia Cristina KC de Freitas Roseli Santos RS Garcia Roberta Scholz Pinto RS da Silva Marcos Vinícius MV Muricy Edna Cleide Mendes EC Kohara Valdelene Sayuri VS Vicentini Adriana Pardini AP
The journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases 20140826
This case reports an immunocompetent 29-year-old woman with suspected pneumonia, suggestive of fungal infection. Immunoblotting analysis reactivity against Histoplasma capsulatum and Paracoccidioides brasiliensis were observed. Nested-PCR in blood employing species-specific primers was positive for H. capsulatum and Cryptococcus neoformans. The evaluation of paucisymptomatic patients with positive results for H. capsulatum and C. neoformans could be relevant for the prevention as well as the pos ...[more]