Improvements incorporated into the second-generation Histoplasma antigen assay have increased its sensitivity and specificity for diagnosis of histoplasmosis. More recently, the antigen assay has ...

HISTOPLASMOSIS is a fungous disease that is almost world wide in distribution but is most frequently seen in an area of the United States roughly defined as the Mississippi Valley. Millions of ...

Disseminated histoplasmosis is an unusual opportunistic infection in patients with advanced HIV infection living outside endemic areas. Diagnosis usually is made on the basis of isolation of ...