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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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Diagnosis of Progressive Disseminated Histoplasmosis in Advanced HIV: A Meta-Analysis of Assay Analytical Performance

Journal of Fungi, 2019
Histoplasmosis is an important cause of mortality in people with advanced HIV, especially in countries with limited access to diagnostic assays. Histoplasmosis can be diagnosed using culture, histopathology, and antibody, antigen, and molecular assays ...
Diego H. Caceres, Martha Knuth, Gordana Derado, Mark D. Lindsley   +3 more
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Metabolism of Gluconeogenic Substrates by an Intracellular Fungal Pathogen Circumvents Nutritional Limitations within Macrophages

mBio, 2020
Microbial pathogens exploit host nutrients to proliferate and cause disease. Intracellular pathogens, particularly those exclusively living in the phagosome such as Histoplasma capsulatum, must adapt and acquire nutrients within the nutrient-limited ...
Qian Shen, Stephanie C. Ray, Heather M. Evans, George S. Deepe, Chad A. Rappleye   +4 more
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Survey of Histoplasma capsulatum in bat guano and status of histoplasmosis in Slovenia, Central Europe

International Journal of Speleology, 2020
There have been increasing reports on the presence of Histoplasma capsulatum in some European countries. The study investigated the presence of Histoplasma in bat guanos, speleologists with records of visiting Histoplasma-endemic regions and patients ...
Janez Mulec, Saša Simčič, Tadeja Kotar, Romina Kofol, Sanja Stopinšek   +4 more
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Characterization of patients with clinical diagnosis of Histoplasmosis in the "Hospital Universitario San Ignacio" between 2012-2016

Infectio, 2019
Introduction: Disseminated histoplasmosis is a common presentation in immunosuppressed patients. The introduction of new diagnostic methods and the improvement of the survival of patients with HIV could have changed the clinical characteristics of ...
Isabel Cristina Cuéllar
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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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Histoplasmosis diseminada progresiva aguda en un paciente inmunocompetente

Medicentro, 2021
La histoplasmosis diseminada progresiva constituye una expresión singular y rara de la infección por Histoplasma capsulatum. Sus formas agudas de presentación suelen aparecer en pacientes con deficiencias inmunitarias graves (fundamentalmente VIH).
Nabil Ghaddar Fuentes, Ana Alicia Vila Toledo, Halbert Hernández Negrín   +2 more
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Extracellular superoxide dismutase protects Histoplasma yeast cells from host-derived oxidative stress. [PDF]

PLoS Pathogens, 2012
In order to establish infections within the mammalian host, pathogens must protect themselves against toxic reactive oxygen species produced by phagocytes of the immune system.
Brian H Youseff, Eric D Holbrook, Katherine A Smolnycki, Chad A Rappleye   +3 more
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