Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America | 2019

Blastomyces helicus, a New Dimorphic Fungus Causing Fatal Pulmonary and Systemic Disease in Humans and Animals in Western Canada and the United States

 
 
 
 
 

Abstract


Blastomyces helicus is an emerging dimorphic fungus that causes fatal pulmonary and systemic disease predominantly in immunocompromised humans and companion animals in western and central regions of Canada and the United States.

Volume 68
Pages 188 - 195
DOI 10.1093/cid/ciy483
Language English
Journal Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

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