The importance of skin exam in chronic pulmonary blastomycosis
IDCases, 2020 Cutaneous blastomycosis is the most common extrapulmonary manifestation of disseminated blastomycosis, a disease caused by Blastomyces dermatitidis, a dimorphic fungus endemic of North America.
Elena G. Caldito +4 more
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Deep Fungal Infections in the Elderly [PDF]
, 1988 Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/111183/1/j.1532-5415.1988.tb04028.x ...
Kauffman, Carol A. +1 more
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Incidental findings of blastomycosis lung nodules in five asymptomatic patients
Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2018 Asymptomatic blastomycosis infections are rarely identified or described in the literature, but are believed to comprise 50% of cases. In this report we describe five sporadic cases of blastomycosis in asymptomatic patients.
Jennifer L. Anderson +2 more
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Endemic fungal infections in solid organ and hematopoietic cell transplant recipients enrolled in the Transplant‐Associated Infection Surveillance Network ( TRANSNET ) [PDF]
, 2014 Background Invasive fungal infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality among solid organ transplant ( SOT ) and hematopoietic cell transplant ( HCT ) recipients, but few data have been reported on the epidemiology of endemic fungal ...
Alexander, B.D. +18 more
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Indian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2013 We describe a case of posterior fossa blastomycosis in an immunocompetent patient that mimicked high-grade neoplasm on neuroimaging. Histological analysis confirmed blastomycosis.
Dhiraj Baruah +3 more
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Mortality due to systemic mycoses as a primary cause of death or in association with AIDS in Brazil: a review from 1996 to 2006 [PDF]
, 2009 Deaths caused by systemic mycoses such as paracoccidioidomycosis, cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis, candidiasis, aspergillosis, coccidioidomycosis and zygomycosis amounted to 3,583 between 1996-2006 in Brazil. When analysed as the underlying cause of death,
LAURENTI, Ruy +4 more
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50 years of Emmonsia disease in humans: the dramatic emergence of a cluster of novel fungal pathogens [PDF]
, 2015 New species of Emmonsia-like fungi, with phylogenetic and clinical similarities to Blastomyces and Histoplasma, have emerged as causes of systemic human mycoses worldwide.
Schwartz, Ilan S +12 more
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Imaging diagnosis: magnetic resonance imaging of diffuse leptomeningeal oligodendrogliomatosis in a dog with "dural tail sign" [PDF]
, 2018 A case of diffuse leptomeningeal oligodendrogliomatosis affecting the brain and spinal cord of a dog is presented. A 7.5-year old, male neutered Staffordshire bull terrier presented for evaluation of a chronic history of tetraparesis and seizures, with a
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Blastomycosis in Northwestern Ontario, 2004 to 2014
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2015 Blastomycosis is an invasive fungal disease caused by Blastomyces dermatitidis and the recently discovered Blastomyces gilchristii. The medical charts of 64 patients with confirmed cases of blastomycosis in northwestern Ontario during a 10-year period ...
Daniel Dalcin, Syed Zaki Ahmed
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Blastomycosis in a renal transplant recipient: Case of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome
Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2018 There are limited data on blastomycosis in solid organ transplant recipients with the subsequent development of the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS).
Alexis Guenette +4 more
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