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Histoplasma capsulatum

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Pulmonary Infections and Immunity

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Histoplasmosis, the disease caused by inhalation of the dimorphic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum, is the most common systemic fungal infection in the United States. Most infections with H. capsulatum are asymptomatic. In the normal host, symptomatic acute pulmonary histoplasmosis may occur after the inhalation of a large inoculum of infectious microconidia. In the abnormal host, clinical infection may take the form of chronic pulmonary diseases or progressive disseminated illness.

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Chapman, S.W., Henderson, H.M. (1994). Histoplasma capsulatum. In: Chmel, H., Bendinelli, M., Friedman, H. (eds) Pulmonary Infections and Immunity. Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1063-9_12

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