Midstate seeing rise in histoplasmosis, fungus infection spread by breathing in spores

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) is warning about a rise in cases involving a fungus in the Midstate. TDH is warning clinicians and laboratories of an increase in ...

Amid Tennessee’s histoplasmosis outbreak, some are pointing to manmade fog as the source. Here are the facts

Histoplasmosis is a lung infection caused by the fungus called Histoplasma. According to the Centers for Disease Control and ...
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Histoplasmosis more common in rural areas of US

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Studies have shown that the geographic range of histoplasmosis is expanding in the United States. The lung ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Coccidioidomycosis and Histoplasmosis in Immunocompetent Persons

Of the roughly 150,000 recognized fungal species, and perhaps the several million not yet identified, few cause disease in humans, 1 fewer do so in persons not overtly immunosuppressed, and only a ...
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Q&A: IDSA updates histoplasmosis guidelines after 18 years

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Guidelines for the management of pulmonary histoplasmosis were last published in 2007. The new guidelines use ...
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Rise in fungal infection prompts health advisory in Middle Tennessee counties

The Tennessee Department of Health has issued a health advisory after an increase in histoplasmosis cases in Williamson and Maury counties. Histoplasmosis is a lung infection, or pneumonia, caused by ...