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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Health officials in Tennessee are investigating an outbreak of infections tied to a fungus found in soil, after at least 35 people became sick. At least one person has also died of histoplasmosis, ...

The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) is alerting clinicians, laboratories, and the public to a rise in histoplasmosis cases in Williamson and Maury counties. The advisory covers residents in ...