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Isolation of Histoplasma capsulatum from tissues of bats captured in the Aguas Buenas Caves, Aguas Buenos, Puerto Rico

✍ Scribed by Juan R. Carvajal Zamora

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1977
Tongue: English
Weight: 187 KB
Volume: 60
Category: Article
ISSN: 0301-486X
DOI: 10.1007/bf00448410

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✦ Synopsis

Of 30 bats belonging to four species, only one species, Brachyplylla cavernarum, yielded positive for Histoplasma capsulatum. Bats were collected at the Aguas Buenas Caves in Puerto Rico. The other species are: Artibeus jamaicensis, Monophyllus redmani portoricensis, and Erophylla bibombifrons; these resulted negative for the fungus.

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