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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.
Blastomycosis is not considered contagious, either among humans or between animals and humans. [9] However, there are a very small number of cases of human-to-human transmission of B. dermatitidis related to dermal contact [ 69 ] or sexual transmission of disseminated blastomycosis of the genital tract among spouses.
Blastomyces is a genus of fungi in the order Onygenales. Species are known human pathogens and show thermal dimorphism, converting from hyphal states under saprobic conditions to yeast-like states under pathogenic conditions. They are the causative agents of blastomycosis, a systemic mycosis in immunocompromised patients. [1] [2]
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