Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
[2] [3] Symptoms of this infection vary greatly, but the disease affects primarily the lungs. [4] Occasionally, other organs are affected; called disseminated histoplasmosis, it can be fatal if left untreated. H. capsulatum is found in soil, often associated with decaying bat guano or bird droppings. Disruption of soil from excavation or ...
Infection is usually by the droppings of another infected bird, though it can also be transmitted by feathers and eggs, [12] and is typically either inhaled or ingested. [11] C. psittaci strains in birds infect mucosal epithelial cells and macrophages of the respiratory tract. Septicaemia eventually develops and the bacteria become localized in ...
Histoplasma capsulatum is a species of dimorphic fungus.Its sexual form is called Ajellomyces capsulatus.It can cause pulmonary and disseminated histoplasmosis.. Histoplasma capsulatum is "distributed worldwide, except in Antarctica, but most often associated with river valleys" [1] and occurs chiefly in the "Central and Eastern United States" [2] followed by "Central and South America, and ...
Fungal meningitis may be caused by the following (and also other) types of fungi: [1] [2] [3] Candida - C. albicans is the most common Candida species that causes infections of the central nervous system. Coccidioides - it is endemic to southwestern United States and Mexico. A third of patients presenting with disseminated coccidioidomycosis ...
Birds are infected once they ingest the eggs of the nematode in soil, or sometimes through earthworms which had ingested the egg-contaminated soil. Outbreak can occur rapidly from the heavily infected bird in a flock readily through normal contact between uninfected and infected birds and their droppings in the total absence of cecal worms. [7]
A US farmworker who caught bird flu after working with dairy cattle in Texas appears to be the first known case of mammal-to-human transmission of the virus, a new study shows.
More than 25,000 birds in New York have been affected by the avian flu since 2022, including dozens of new infections uncovered this year in New York City parks and backyard flocks upstate ...
A Kossuth County game pheasant farm is the ninth Iowa poultry operation to report bird flu infections this fall Bird flu detected on north central Iowa farm with game pheasant, chickens and ...