A recent newspaper article said that Bob Dylan, my favorite singer, was just released from the hospital after treatment for a dangerous fungal infection called histoplasmosis. I would like to know ...

Histoplasmosis: A disease caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. Most people with histoplasmosis have no symptoms. However, histoplasma can cause acute or chronic lung disease and ...

Studies have shown that the geographic range of histoplasmosis is expanding in the United States. The lung infection is more common in rural areas and places with limited health care infrastructure.

HISTOPLASMOSIS is a fungous disease that is almost world wide in distribution but is most frequently seen in an area of the United States roughly defined as the Mississippi Valley. Millions of ...

Blastomycosis and histoplasmosis are both fungal infections that a person can acquire by breathing in spores from the air. However, the two conditions have different treatment pathways.

If you didn't guess histoplasmosis, you're not alone. The fungus in question, Histoplasma capsulatum, is common in the Midwest and Midatlantic, according to the researchers at the Centers for ...