Of the roughly 150,000 recognized fungal species, and perhaps the several million not yet identified, few cause disease in humans, 1 fewer do so in persons not overtly immunosuppressed, and only a ...

Blastomycosis and histoplasmosis are both fungal infections that a person can acquire by breathing in spores from the air. However, the two conditions have different treatment pathways. The fungus ...

A series of autopsies performed in an infectious disease hospital in the Brazilian Amazon reveals that infections by the Histoplasma fungus are a major cause of death in people with HIV. The study, ...

Some fungi that can cause serious lung infections have spread to many parts of the United States. A Science News story on the expanded range of Histoplasma, Coccidioides and Blastomyces fungi hit a ...

In a recent study published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, scientists detected Histoplasma capsulatum deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in soil and penguin fecal samples in Antarctica, ...

A 59-year-old married retired Air Force sergeant from Tennessee entered the hospital on May 6, 1965. He had been well until August, 1964, when he had a thromboembolectomy of the left iliac artery at ...

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WTVF) — Two Williamson County families are calling for increased testing for histoplasmosis after their loved ones battled life-threatening cases of the fungal infection that ...

The Tennessee Department of Health has issued a health advisory after an increase in histoplasmosis cases in Williamson and Maury counties. Histoplasmosis is a lung infection, or pneumonia, caused by ...

A fungal infection associated with a high percentage of deaths among HIV and other immune-compromised patients is more diverse than previously known and likely spread around the world by bats. A ...

Histoplasmosis is an infectious disease caused by a fungus, Histoplasma capsulatum. It is a disease that primarily affects the lungs, but other organs may be involved as well. It usually causes a mild ...

Presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome (POHS) is an eye disorder that doctors believe is a complication of a fungal infection with the Histoplasma species. Although this has yet to be proven, this is ...