BOOK REVIEW LIVRO* * Este livro encontra-se na Biblioteca do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo.
FRANCO, Marcello; LACAZ, Carlos da Silva; RESTREPO-MORENO, A. & DEL NEGRO, Gildo, ed. - Paracoccidioidomycosis. Boca Raton, CRC Press, 1994. 410p. illust.
ISBN: 0-8493-4868-4.
Edited by M. Franco, C. S. Lacaz, A. Reslrepo-Moreno and G. Del Negro, CRC Press has recently published "Paracoccidioidomycosis". The book, with 410 pages, brings a review on the various topics of this important Latin American deep mycosis by a group of 45 experts from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and the USA. The biology of the fungus, the epidemiology, clinical, laboratorial and radiological aspects of the disease, its new therapeutical approachs as well as its interesting immunological peculiarities and experimental models are extensively revised and updated.
The book is of interest not only for Latin American infectologists, but to any one involved in studies of host parasite relationship in fungal diseases.
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Date of issue
Apr 1994
