North American blastomycosis

North American blastomycosis.

N ORTH American blastomycosis (Gilchrist’s disease) is a granulomatous, infectious disease caused by the fungus, Blastomyces dermatitidis (Gilchrist and Stokes, 1898). The malady, in its cutaneous form, was first described by Gilchrist’ in 1894. A few years later, together with Stokes, he was able to isolate and culture the causative organism which he designated as B. dermatitibis.23 The first ...

North American blastomycosis.

Cutaneous North American blastomycosis: report of a case from central Canada.

Mr. G.M., aged 43, worked as a bookkeeper for a mining company in Northwestern Ontario, near the Manitoba border. In January 1968 he noticed a small group of papules and pustules appearing gradually on the vertex of his scalp, but otherwise he seemed to be in good health. When the lesions persisted and hair loss was observed, topical and systemic anti¬ biotics were prescribed but had no effect....

Laryngeal manifestations of paracoccidioidomycosis (South American blastomycosis).

OBJECTIVE To report clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and epidemiologic characteristics of laryngeal paracoccidioidomycosis. DESIGN Case series. SETTINGS Tertiary care institutional hospital. PATIENTS We reviewed the hospital records of 7 patients with laryngeal paracoccidioidomycosis diagnosed by histopathological examination. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Clinical manifestations of laryngeal...

Human and Canine Pulmonary Blastomycosis, North Carolina, 2001–2002

We investigated a cluster of blastomycosis in 8 humans and 4 dogs in a rural North Carolina community. Delayed diagnosis, difficulty isolating Blastomyces dermatitidis in nature, and lack of a sensitive and specific test to assess exposure make outbreaks of this disease difficult to study.