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Histoplasma capsulatum Infection in an Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patient Receiving Voriconazole Prophylaxis [PDF]

, 2020
Histoplasma capsulatum infection is a rare complication in the allogeneic stem cell transplant patients. Minimal guidance exists on how to appropriately manage histoplasmosis in these patients.
Agrawal, Vaibhav, Brinda, Bryan J., Farag, Sherif S.   +2 more
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Evidence of Histoplasma capsulatum seropositivity and exploration of risk factors for exposure in Busia county, western Kenya: Analysis of the PAZ dataset.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2023
BackgroundDespite recognition of histoplasmosis as a disease of national public health concern in Kenya, the burden of Histoplasma capsulatum in the general population remains unknown.
Tessa Rose Cornell, Lian Francesca Thomas, Elizabeth Anne Jessie Cook, Gina Pinchbeck, Judy Bettridge, Lauren Gordon, Velma Kivali, Alice Kiyong'a, Eric Maurice Fèvre, Claire Elizabeth Scantlebury   +9 more
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Biodiverse Histoplasma Species Elicit Distinct Patterns of Pulmonary Inflammation following Sublethal Infection

mSphere, 2020
Histoplasma is an endemic dimorphic fungus that can cause disease in healthy and immunocompromised individuals after the transition of inhaled spores into the facultative intracellular yeast form. There is substantial diversity among Histoplasma species,
Grant S. Jones, Victoria E. Sepúlveda, William E. Goldman   +2 more
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Primary cutaneous histoplasmosis developed in the penis of an immunocompetent patient [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2015
A 70-year-old male presenting a 3-month history of genital painless erythematous nodules in the balanopreputial sulcus was referred to our service. Histopathological exam presented a chronic dermatitis with epithelioid granulomas and Grocott staining ...
Mauricio Paixão, Hélio Amante Miot, João Avancini, Walter Belda Júnior   +3 more
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Contribuição ao estudo de Histoplasma capsulatum (Darling, 1906) Contribuition to the study of Histoplasma capsulatum, (Darling, 1906)

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1972
Usando o meio de amônio-sulfato-glicose, conseguimos que oito amostras estéreis de Histoplasma capsulatum voltassem a produzir estalagmosporos.Using the Amonium sulfate glucose medium we succeed in obtaining stalagmospores in eight sterile strains of ...
M. Carlota Pedroso, N. Callado Marçano
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Disseminated histoplasmosis in a cat rescued in Fortaleza, Brazil, and successfully treated with itraconazole – First case report identified molecularly

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2020
An unneutered female cat of unknown age presented bloody lesions on the edematous face, and respiratory signs. Cytology and culture from the skin sample collected with fine-needle aspiration showed yeasts inside activated macrophages, and fungal growth ...
Liliane Lima da Silva Lomônaco, Stefanie Bressan Waller, Marlete Brum Cleff, Angelita dos Reis Gomes, Barbara Wilka Leal Silva, Rosane de Oliveira Cruz, Talles Monte de Almeida, Amanda Leal de Vasconcellos, Wesley Lyeverton Correia Ribeiro, Renata Osório de Faria, Mário Carlos Araújo Meireles, Adriana de Queiroz Pinheiro, Paula Priscila Correia Costa   +12 more
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Genome Sequences Reveal Cryptic Speciation in the Human Pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum

mBio, 2017
Histoplasma capsulatum is a pathogenic fungus that causes life-threatening lung infections. About 500,000 people are exposed to H. capsulatum each year in the United States, and over 60% of the U.S. population has been exposed to the fungus at some point
Victoria E. Sepúlveda, Roberto Márquez, David A. Turissini, William E. Goldman, Daniel R. Matute   +4 more
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Bilateral infectious scleritis from Histoplasma capsulatum in an immunosuppressed uveitis patient

American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2021
Purpose: To describe a case of bilateral infectious scleritis secondary to Histoplasma capsulatum in the setting of a locally and systemically immunosuppressed patient.
Kevin Wang, Jordan D. Deaner, Austen Knapp, Kimberly Baynes, Sunil K. Srivastava   +4 more
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A case of histoplasmosis Report 1. Cinical, mycological and pathological observations [PDF]

, 1957
In our country it has been believed that there is no histoplasmosis here in Japan. However, from the above clinical signs, radiological characteristics, laboratory tests, pathological and mycological examinations, and experimental findings, we believe ...
Hamazaki, Yukio, Hitomi, Hiroshi, Maekawa, Seigen, Mimura, Koji, Ogawa, Katsuo, Uejima, Akira, Yamato, Hitoshi   +6 more
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A medium for inducing conversion of Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum into its yeast-like form

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1992
Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum is a dimorphic fungus that, under special conditions, converts from its more common mycelial form to a yeast-like form. Achieving this conversion, however, has been problematical for researchers.
R. Fressatti, V. L. Dias-Siqueira, T. I. E. Svidzinski, F. Herrero, C. Kemmelmeier   +4 more
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