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 ...

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 ...

the researchers identified histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis and blastomycosis cases using data within the MerativeTM MarketScan database and mapped them to the location that the diagnosis was ...

Disseminated histoplasmosis is usually associated with immunosuppressive ... Additionally, coinfection with fungal pathogens should be considered as a differential diagnosis even in immunocompetent ...

Walilko knew something was wrong—yet says clinicians continued to brush off her symptoms. After doing internet research, she figured out that her boyfriend was likely a strep carrier ...

Wintertime unfortunately means cold and flu season. And for the estimated 40 million people who get the flu each year, it can ...

"Pigeons are known carriers of diseases such as histoplasmosis, cryptococcosis, and psittacosis, transmitted through airborne particles from droppings. Hospitalization and fatalities linked to ...

These conditions often happen to people who don't have HIV, as well. But if you do have the virus, they can lead to more serious issues. Odds are you’ve had a few sinus infections or bouts of ...

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 ...