Histoplasmosis — United States
We report 4 patients in North America with disease caused by _Emergomyces canadensis_, a newly proposed species of pathogenic dimorphic fungus. Affected persons were immunocompromised; lived in Saskatchewan, Colorado, and New Mexico; and had systemic disease involving blood, skin, cervix, lung, and lymph node. Two cases were fatal.
Members of the recently described fungal genus _Emergomyces_ cause disseminated and often fatal disease in immunocompromised hosts (1,2). So named because of
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