They also include waterfront vacation properties on streams, lakes or rivers that infect otherwise healthy visitors with the often deadly disease blastomycosis.
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:: : : It's true that there are common soil microbes that can cause disease, like botulism or blastomycosis.
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Lutz was also responsible for the identification of South American blastomycosis, which received his name ( Lutz-Splendore-de-Almeida disease ).
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Blastomycosis is generally readily treatable with systemic antifungal drugs once it is correctly diagnosed; however, delayed diagnosis is very common except in highly endemic areas.
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The fatality rate in the ARDS cases in the Tennessee study was 89 %, while in non-ARDS cases of pulmonary blastomycosis, the fatality rate was 10 %.
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Blastomycosis seems more probable as these young people in Late Woodland and Mississippian times may have been afflicted because they were spending more time cultivating plants than their Middle Woodland predecessors had done.
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Unlike blastomycosis, histoplasmosis is a recognized HIV infection; disseminated histoplasmosis affects approximately 5 % of AIDS patients with CD4 + cell counts < 150 cells / �L in highly endemic areas.
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As with blastomycosis, a good understanding of the precise ecological affinities of " H . capsulatum " is greatly complicated by the difficulty of isolating the fungus directly from nature.
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All granulomas, regardless of cause, may contain additional cells and bronchopulmonary fungal disease, and granulomas with numerous neutrophils suggest blastomycosis, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, aspiration pneumonia or cat-scratch disease.
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An uncommon but very dangerous type of primary blastomycosis manifests as acute respiratory distress syndrome ( ARDS ); for example, this was seen in 9 of 72 blastomycosis cases studied in northeast Tennessee.
