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Blastomycosis Summary

Pathogen: 
 • Dimorphic fungus - Blastomyces dermatitidis or Blastomyces gilchristii.
 • The fungus lives
Farmer and forestry work ... adjacent to the focus ... Meningitis, epidural abscess ... or intracranial abscesses ... management #treatment #infectiousdiseases
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Histoplasmosis Diagnosis ... Pulmonary 3) Abdominal ... Inhalation of spores ... Sinusitis • Brain abscess ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases