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 ...

Histoplasmosis: A disease caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. Most people with histoplasmosis have no symptoms. However, histoplasma can cause acute or chronic lung disease and progressive ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though bacteria and viruses are often thought of as the causes of infections and illnesses, other microbes, such as fungi, can also cause disease. Fungal infections can spread through the blood to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A potentially deadly fungus has been spreading throughout Tennessee, health officials have warned. Over 35 cases of histoplasmosis, a lung infection caused by exposure to the fungus Histoplasma ...