Tag Archive for PRO/EDR> Emergomycosis – North America
PRO/EDR> Emergomycosis – North America
Histoplasmosis -- United StatesWe 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). Read more [...]
