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Necrotizing pneumonia due to blastomycosis: Diagnostic challenges and the emerging role of cell-free DNA testing [PDF]

IDCases
Blastomycosis is the clinical manifestation of infection caused by the yeast phase of the thermally dimorphic fungus Blastomyces dermatitidis, an environmentally poorly understood endemic North American mycosis that can progress to severe pulmonary ...
Edward Tubberville, Seth Conley, Madison Karabinus, Mhorys Pickmans   +3 more
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Detection of Blastomyces dermatitidis Antigen in Urine Using a Commercially Available Quantitative Enzyme Immunoassay. [PDF]

J Clin Microbiol, 2021
Theel ES, Rodino KG, Granger D.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Blastomycosis in Man after Kinkajou Bite [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011
We report transmission of Blastomyces dermatitidis fungal infection from a pet kinkajou to a man. When treating a patient with a recalcitrant infection and a history of an animal bite, early and complete animal necropsy and consideration of nonbacterial ...
Julie R. Harris, David D. Blaney, Mark D. Lindsley, Sherif R. Zaki, Christopher D. Paddock, Clifton P. Drew, April J. Johnson, Douglas Landau, Joel Vanderbush, Robert Baker   +9 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Diagnostic Dilemma in Primary Blastomyces dermatitidis Meningitis: Role of Neurosurgical Biopsy. [PDF]

Case Rep Neurol, 2015
A 52-year-old male on chronic prednisone for polymyalgia rheumatica presented with a subacute history of headaches, nausea, phonophobia, intermittent diplopia and gait instability.
Brown DA, Whealy MA, Van Gompel JJ, Williams LN, Klaas JP.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Ecologic niche modeling of Blastomyces dermatitidis in Wisconsin. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2008
BACKGROUND: Blastomycosis is a potentially fatal mycosis that is acquired by inhaling infectious spores of Blastomyces dermatitidis present in the environment.
Kurt D Reed, Jennifer K Meece, John R Archer, A Townsend Peterson   +3 more
doaj   +7 more sources

Unusual osseous presentation of blastomycosis in an immigrant child: a challenge for European pediatricians [PDF]

Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2012
Background Blastomycosis, caused by the thermally dimorphic fungus Blastomyces dermatitidis is a systemic pyogranulomatous infection, endemic in United States and Canada, with few reported cases in Africa and Asia.
Codifava Margherita, Guerra Azzurra, Rossi Giulio, Paolucci Paolo, Iughetti Lorenzo   +4 more
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Fungal Morphology, Iron Homeostasis, and Lipid Metabolism Regulated by a GATA Transcription Factor in Blastomyces dermatitidis. [PDF]

PLoS Pathog, 2015
In response to temperature, Blastomyces dermatitidis converts between yeast and mold forms. Knowledge of the mechanism(s) underlying this response to temperature remains limited. In B.
Marty AJ, Broman AT, Zarnowski R, Dwyer TG, Bond LM, Lounes-Hadj Sahraoui A, Fontaine J, Ntambi JM, Keleş S, Kendziorski C, Gauthier GM.   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Development of a Highly Sensitive and Specific Blastomycosis Antibody Enzyme Immunoassay Using Blastomyces dermatitidis Surface Protein BAD-1 [PDF]

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, 2013
Serologic tests for antibodies to Blastomyces dermatitidis are not thought to be useful for the diagnosis of blastomycosis, in part due to the low sensitivity of immunodiffusion and complement fixation.
Sarah M. Richer, Melinda Smedema, Michelle Durkin, T. Tristan Brandhorst, Chadi A. Hage, Patricia Connolly, Diane S. Leland, Thomas E. Davis, Bruce S. Klein, L. Joseph Wheat   +9 more
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Genome-level therapeutic targets identification and chimeric Vaccine designing against the Blastomyces dermatitidis. [PDF]

Heliyon
Mursaleen S, Sarfraz A, Shehroz M, Zaman A, Rahman FU, Moura AA, Sheheryar S, Aziz S, Ullah R, Iqbal Z, Nishan U, Shah M, Sun W.   +12 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Blastomyces dermatitidis [PDF]

Veterinary Medicine International, 2014
Dogs are common hosts to the fungal organism Blastomyces dermatitidis, which causes the systemic disease blastomycosis. The goal of our study was to compare the reactivity of two B.
Eric Hungerford, Gene Scalarone, Jessie Fullmer, Katie Mondada, Katrina Novack, Kristen Vickers   +5 more
core   +3 more sources