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Progressive disseminated histoplasmosis as seen in adults
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Of 530 patients with a diagnosis of active histoplasmosis, twenty-five had progressive disseminated disease and the efficacy of treatment with amphotericin B is attested to by the fact that mortality in the untreated group was 100% and in the adequately treated group only 7 per cent.About:
This article is published in The American Journal of Medicine.The article was published on 1970-05-01. It has received 128 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Progressive disseminated histoplasmosis & Histoplasmosis.read more
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Oral versus intravenous therapy in the treatment of systemic mycosis
TL;DR: Voriconazole is a new antifungal agent that presents a broad spectrum of antIFungal activity that makes its use possible, a priori, in the initial and/or sequential IV/PO treatment of any systemic mycotic infection.
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Pharmacotherapy of Disseminated Histoplasmosis in Patients with AIDS
TL;DR: An overview of the pathophysiology, epidemiology, clinical presentation and diagnosis of disseminated histoplasmosis in patients with AIDS is provided, with an emphasis on efficacy and toxicity of these agents.
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Colonic histoplasmosis in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Report of two cases.
TL;DR: Any patient with HIV infection who has unexplained GI symptoms should undergo evaluation for possible histoplasmosis, and aggressive long-term amphotericin B therapy has been effective in HIV patients with histoplasmsosis.
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Disseminated histoplasmosis involving an aortofemoral prosthetic graft.
TL;DR: A patient is described in whom a previously implanted Dacron aortofemoral graft became infected with Histoplasma capsulatum, illustrating that vascular prostheses are susceptible to fungal infections that are difficult to eradicate.
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Histoplasmosis: an outbreak occurring among young men who visited one cave.
TL;DR: Sixteen cases of acute benign inhalational histoplasmosis were investigated after an outbreak of the disease in a group visiting a cave and an attempt to isolate the organism Histoplasma capsulatum was unsuccessful.
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Isolation of Histoplasma capsulatum from soil
TL;DR: Several of the fungi pathogenic for man appear to have an independent saprophytic existence in the soil or in decaying vegetable matter as discussed by the authors, and human infections can be best explained by inhalation of air-borne spores from the soil.
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Pulmonary Calcification in Negative Reactors to Tuberculin.
Amos Christie,J. C. Peterson +1 more
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The course and prognosis of histoplasmosis
TL;DR: An analysis of 123 culturally proved cases of histoplasmosis is presented, finding that this infection characteristically progresses gradually over several years, although remissions and exacerbations may occur.
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Primary Cutaneous Histoplasmosis
Robert B. Tesh,John D. Schneidau +1 more
TL;DR: Criteria for a diagnosis of primary cutaneous infection with a fungus capable of causing pulmonary mycosis are suggested, with history of traumatic inoculation and subsequent development of a chancriform lesion.