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Blastomycosis is endemic to the eastern United States and Canada, especially the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys, the Great Lakes, and the St. Lawrence River valley. [6] In these areas, there are about 1 to 2 cases per 100,000 per year. [13] Less frequently, blastomycosis also occurs in Africa, the Middle East, India, and western North America.
They are the causative agents of blastomycosis, a systemic mycosis in immunocompromised patients. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Blastomyces Gilchrist & W.R. Stokes (1898) was an illegitimate homonym of Blastomyces Costantin & Rolland (1888) (a synonym of Chrysosporium ), but has now been conserved against the earlier name because of its widespread use in ...
Blastomyces dermatitidis is the causal agent of blastomycosis, a potentially very serious disease that typically begins with a characteristically subtle pneumonia-like infection that may progress, after 1–6 months, to a disseminated phase that causes lesions to form in capillary beds throughout the body, most notably the skin, internal organs, central nervous system and bone marrow.
The fungal infection Gilchrist's disease, more commonly known as blastomycosis, is named for him after he first mistook it as a protozoan disease before correctly identifying it as a fungal in origin.
Some types such as blastomycosis, cryptococcus, coccidioidomycosis and histoplasmosis, affect people who live in or visit certain parts of the world. [18] Others such as aspergillosis , pneumocystis pneumonia , candidiasis , mucormycosis and talaromycosis , tend to affect people who are unable to fight infection themselves. [ 18 ]
[10] It can occur as a mouth and skin type, lymphangitic type, multi-organ involvement type (particularly lungs), or mixed type. [1] [6] If there are mouth ulcers or skin lesions, the disease is likely to be widespread. [1] There may be no symptoms, or it may present with fever, sepsis, weight loss, large glands, or a large liver and spleen. [4 ...
Blastomycosis, a fungal infection that usually occurs in the upper Midwest and Southeast, is being detected in Vermont at higher rates than expected, a new study finds. A rare fungal infection is ...
Blastocystis is a genus of single-celled parasites belonging to the Stramenopiles that includes algae, diatoms, and water molds.There are several species, living in the gastrointestinal tracts of species as diverse as humans, farm animals, birds, rodents, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and cockroaches. [2]