ALLMedicine™ Blastomycosis Center

Feb 23rd, 2021 - While blastomycosis is endemic to eastern USA and northwestern Ontario, acquisition is an anomaly in urban settings. We present a 54-year-old immunocompetent man from the greater Toronto area with no travel, who presented with a 3-week history of ...

Feb 5th, 2021 - The digitization of radiographic studies along with high-speed transmission of images has formed the basis of teleradiology, which has become an integral component in the workflow of a contemporary radiology practice. It is with this advent and gr...

Dec 10th, 2020 - Blastomycosis due to Blastomyces dermatitidis and B. gilchristii is a significant cause of respiratory mycoses in North America with occasionally reported outbreaks. We developed a highly sensitive, specific, and reproducible Taqman duplex real-ti...

Oct 22nd, 2020 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and New York State Department of Health recently identified the Capital District of New York (CDNY) as an emerging endemic area for blastomycosis. However, no clinical or epidemiological description o...

Oct 14th, 2020 - Blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, and histoplasmosis cause various symptoms and syndromes, which may present similarly to other infections such as bacterial or viral community-acquired pneumonia, influenza, and tuberculosis. We used the IBM® Mark...

May 8th, 2008 - Evidence-based guidelines for the management of patients with blastomycosis were prepared by an Expert Panel of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. These updated guidelines replace the previous management guidelines published in the April ...

Feb 23rd, 2021 - While blastomycosis is endemic to eastern USA and northwestern Ontario, acquisition is an anomaly in urban settings. We present a 54-year-old immunocompetent man from the greater Toronto area with no travel, who presented with a 3-week history of ...

Feb 23rd, 2021 - Ketoconazole tablets are not indicated for treatment of onychomycosis, cutaneous dermatophyte infections, or Candida infections. Ketoconazole tablets should be used only when other effective antifungal therapy is not available or tolerated and the...

Feb 5th, 2021 - The digitization of radiographic studies along with high-speed transmission of images has formed the basis of teleradiology, which has become an integral component in the workflow of a contemporary radiology practice. It is with this advent and gr...

Jan 20th, 2021 - Ketoconazole tablets are not indicated for treatment of onychomycosis, cutaneous dermatophyte infections, or Candida infections. Ketoconazole tablets should be used only when other effective antifungal therapy is not available or tolerated and the...

Dec 27th, 2020 - Itraconazole capsules are indicated for the treatment of the following fungal infections in immunocompromised and non-immunocompromised patients: Blastomycosis, pulmonary and extrapulmonary Histoplasmosis, including chronic cavitary pulmonary dise...

Dec 26th, 2019 - Punch biopsy from the upper back revealed a mixed acute and granulomatous infiltrate with numerous yeast forms (Figure 4A) that were highlighted by Grocott-Gomori methenamine-silver (Figure 4B) and periodic acid–Schiff (Figure 4C) stains. Figure 4.

Nov 1st, 2018 - Comment Epidemiology Blastomycosis is a polymorphic pyogranulomatous disease caused by the dimorphic fungus B dermatitidis, naturally occurring in the soil with a worldwide distribution. 4 Individuals affected by the disease often reside in locatio.

Oct 28th, 2016 - Blastomycosis Blastomycosis is caused by Blastomyces dermatitidis, which is endemic in the Midwestern and southeastern United States where it occurs environmentally in wood and soil. Unlike many fungal infections, blastomycosis most often develops.

Jun 3rd, 2016 - The Food and Drug Administration issued a health warning on May 16th, 2016, regarding the use of oral ketoconazole for the treatment of skin and nail dermatophyte and candidal infections – wait what? Why is this even an active discussion? Let’s ta.

Oct 22nd, 2015 - The development of infections from mycobacteria and fungi endemic to U. S.