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Disseminated histoplasmosis evading detection in an immunocompromised patient [PDF]

Medical Mycology Case Reports
Histoplasma capsulatum is a pathogenic fungus known to exist across the world, especially in the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys. While clinicians commonly rely on urine and serum Histoplasma antigen testing for rapid detection of disseminated ...
Queen Pierre, Dalal Chenouda
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Mac1-Dependent Copper Sensing Promotes Histoplasma Adaptation to the Phagosome during Adaptive Immunity

MBio, 2022
Intracellular pathogens residing within macrophage phagosomes are challenged with recognizing the phagosomal environment and appropriately responding to changing host defense strategies imposed in this organelle.
Stephanie C Ray, Chad A Rappleye
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Misdiagnosis and Coinfection of Localized Pulmonary Histoplasmosis with Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review of Published Cases [PDF]

Journal of Fungi
Pulmonary histoplasmosis is often misdiagnosed as or coinfected with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). This study aims to analyze the misdiagnosis or co-occurrence of published cases of pulmonary TB and pulmonary histoplasmosis.
Sem Samuel Surja, Donnatella Valentina, Anita Devi Krishnan Thantry, Jonathan Christianto Subagya, Edho Yuwono, Darmadi Darmadi, Nisa Fauziah, Robiatul Adawiyah, Retno Wahyuningsih   +8 more
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Rapid gain and loss of a chromosome drives key morphology and virulence phenotypes in the fungal pathogen Histoplasma. [PDF]

PLoS Biology
Heritable phenotypic switches are fundamental to the ability of cells to respond to specific conditions. Such switches are key to the success of environmental pathogens, which encounter disparate conditions as they transition between the environment and ...
Sarah Heater, Mark Voorhies, Rosa A Rodriguez, Bevin C English, Anita Sil   +4 more
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Sensing the heat and the host: Virulence determinants ofHistoplasma capsulatum

Virulence, 2019
Histoplasma capsulatum is a member of a group of fungal pathogens called thermally dimorphic fungi, all of which respond to mammalian body temperature by converting from an environmental mold form into a parasitic host form that causes disease ...
Sinem Beyhan, Anita Sil
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Prevalence of Histoplasmosis among Persons with Advanced HIV Disease, Nigeria

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
We sought to determine the prevalence of probable disseminated histoplasmosis among advanced HIV disease (AHD) patients in Nigeria. We conducted a cross-sectional study in 10 sites across 5 of 6 geopolitical zones in Nigeria. We identified patients with
Rita O. Oladele, Iriagbonse I. Osaigbovo, Alani S. Akanmu, Olukemi A. Adekanmbi, Bassey E. Ekeng, Yahaya Mohammed, Mary A. Alex-Wele, Mark O. Okolo, Stephen T. Ayanbeku, Uchechukwu S. Unigwe, Iorhen E. Akase, Alali Dan-Jumbo, Dennis Isralski, David W. Denning, Alessandro C. Pasqualotto, Tom Chiller   +15 more
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Histoplasmosis cerebral

Acta Neurológica Colombiana, 2021
La histoplasmosis cerebral primaria es poco frecuente, en la mayoría de los casos se presenta en forma secundaria a la diseminación desde un foco primario pulmonar.
Iván Mauricio Peña Castellanos, Julián David Santana Porras, Karen Sulay Rodríguez Díaz   +2 more
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Histoplasmosis masquerading as tuberculosis: A report of three cases in immunocompetent children

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2022
The most common cause of granulomatous lymphadenitis in countries like ours is mycobactrium tuberculosis followed by atypical mycobacterial infection, fungal infections, parasitic infection, cat scratch disease, lymphogranuloma venereum (inguinal ...
Anindita Mondal, Ram N Das, Uttara Chatterjee, Arijit Majumdar, Moumita Sengupta, Swagata Bhattacharyya, Ruchirendu Sarkar   +6 more
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Linfohistiocitosis hemofagocítica por Histoplasma capsulatum en paciente con trasplante renal

Infectio, 2020
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) induced by Histoplasma capsulatum is a rare entity who is characterized by phagocytosis of hematopoietic cells by tissue macrophages.
Alejandro Camargo-Salamanca
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Clinical utility of fungal culture and antifungal susceptibility in cats and dogs with histoplasmosis

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2023
Background Culture can be used for diagnosis and antifungal susceptibility testing in animals with fungal infections. Limited information is available regarding the diagnostic performance of culture and the susceptibility patterns of Histoplasma spp ...
Andrew S. Hanzlicek, Kate S. KuKanich, Audrey K. Cook, Steven Hodges, John M. Thomason, Rupika DeSilva, Akhilesh Ramachandran, Michelle M. Durkin   +7 more
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