Pulmonary histoplasmosis
Pulmonary Histoplasmosis in a patient with Cough, Dyspnea, Pulmonary Nodule and Rheumatologic Manifestations: Case Report and Review
... asymptomatic pulmonary histoplasmosis ...Symptomatic pulmonary histoplasmosis, as noted in our case report, presents as a subacute pulmonary infection weeks to months following ...and ...
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Pulmonary histoplasmosis presenting as chronic productive cough, fever, and massive unilateral consolidation in a 15 year old immune competent boy: a case report
... severe pulmonary histoplasmosis is associated with pre-existing abnormal lung ...for pulmonary histoplasmosis ...in pulmonary histoplasmosis are similar to those of TB but are ...
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Vbeta4(+) T cells promote clearance of infection in murine pulmonary histoplasmosis
... The autoradiographs from each mouse were densitometri- cally quantified and data computed as stated in Methods. The relative density index (mean 6 SEM) of lungs from six mice per group was calculated and compared to the ...
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Miliary Histoplasmosis in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis
... Nine days after discharge, our microbiology lab reported growth of mold from fungal lung tissue cultures. The isolate was preliminarily identified as Histoplasma capsulatum based on morphology (Figure 2) and was sent to a ...
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Detection of (1,3) β d Glucan in Cerebrospinal Fluid in Histoplasma Meningitis
... The sensitivity was lower than that for other types of fungal meningitis, such as Exserohilum meningitis (84%) (5), cryptococcal meningitis (89%) (7), and coccidioidal meningitis (96%) (8). The overall specificity in this ...
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Laboratory Diagnostics for Histoplasmosis
... acute histoplasmosis (80%) but persists for long periods of time; therefore, a single positive M band cannot distinguish active from latent or resolved ...acute pulmonary histoplasmosis ...
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Disseminated Histoplasmosis Presenting as Skin Nodules
... Acute pulmonary histoplasmosis in an HIV-infected patient with intact immunity, as indicated by a CD4 count >300 cells/mm3, should be managed in a manner similar to that used for a nonimmunocompromised ...
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Case of disseminated histoplasmosis in a HIV infected patient revealed by nasal involvement with maxillary osteolysis
... Her medical history is characterized by an HIV infec- tion diagnosed in 2006, which was classified at AIDS stage in 2008 due to cytomegalovirus infection. At the same time, she suffered from pulmonary ...
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Primary Histoplasmosis of Larynx: A Case Series and Review of Literature
... Primary Histoplasmosis of Larynx, over a period of 10 ...laryngeal Histoplasmosis was essentially a disease of adult males in all 10 ...laryngeal Histoplasmosis is a rare ...
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Gastrointestinal Histoplasmosis Presenting as an Acute Abdomen with Jejunal Perforation
... Gastrointestinal histoplasmosis (GH) is a well-described albeit uncommon ...for histoplasmosis. Conclusion. Disseminated histoplasmosis is a life-threatening disease that occurs nearly exclusively in ...
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Darling's Disease: A Review
... Available online at www.jocpr.com 92 which occurs 10-21 days after infection, is needed to kill the organisms. [15] Specific helper T cells are able to activate macrophages to form the granulomas that are characteristic ...
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<p>HIV-Associated Histoplasmosis: Current Perspectives</p>
... of histoplasmosis in patients with AIDS involves reactivation of latent infection in some ...test, pulmonary calci fi cations or positive serology) was no different than in those with no prior exposure, ...
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Acute histoplasmosis in immunocompetent travelers: a systematic review of literature
... Symptoms and signs include cough, low-grade fever, night sweats and weight loss. Chest radiographs show interstitial or consolidative infiltrates associated with cavitation or fluid-filled emphysematous bullae [4]. This ...
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TREATMENT OF DISSEMINATED INFANTILE HISTOPLASMOSIS WITH AMPHOTERICIN B
... The former re- ported the serum gave a strongly positive test for active histoplasmosis, and the latter reported it negative to antigen 1 and positive (1:8) to an-.. 3 tigen 2.[r] ...
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Development of a novel antigen detection test for histoplasmosis
... Cyclophosphamide has previously been incorporated in standard immunization protocols to produce specific MAbs directed against fungal antigens (4, 11). This methodology has now been successfully applied to produce MAb ...
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DIAGNOSIS OF HISTOPLASMOSIS USING PRECIPITIN REACTIONS IN AGAR GEL
... Fic. Lungs of patient with cavitary histoplas- 11105i5, proved! by culture. Complement-fixation re- actions were negative on two serum speciniens, both of which showed ii and in antibodi[r] ...
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Histoplasmosis Presenting as Granulomatous Hepatitis: Case Report and Review of the Literature
... Histoplasmosis is a thermal dimorphic fungus found most commonly in soil along the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, in the central, mid-Atlantic, and south-central states, and from Alabama to southwest Texas. ...
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Autopsy study of adrenals a prospective study
... Goodwin et al reviewed 102 cases of disseminated histoplasmosis and found that adrenal was involved in 82% of the cases (Danby et al., 1990). Histoplasma can also produce bilateral enlargement of the adrenal ...
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Revaluing the Tzanck Test: A Comparative Study with Direct Immunofluorescence for Herpes Virus
... contagiosum, histoplasmosis, cryptococcosis, cutaneous immune disorders (pemphigus vulgaris, Stevens- Johnson syndrome, erosive lichen planus, and others), cutaneous tumor lesions, where the test can be useful, so ...
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Fungal infection of the colon
... groups. The first group consisted of names of the fungi or infections related to the fungi, including “aspergillosis”, “Aspergillus”, “Blastomyces”, “blastomycosis”, “ Candida”, “candidiasis”, “chromoblastomycosis”, ...
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