North American blastomycosis.
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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 ...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Grace Hospital bulletin
دوره 35 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1957