Acute pulmonary histoplasmosis and first isolation of Histoplasma capsulatum from soil of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo

L. C. Severo¹  V. F. Petrillo¹  J. J. Camargo¹  G. R. Geyer¹  N. S. Porto¹ 

[1] ,Instituto de Pesquisas Biológicas Secretaria da Saúde e do Meio Ambiente and Pavilhão Pereira Filho Porto Alegre RS ,Brazil

关键词: Human Histoplasmosis;    LUNG;    Isolation of Histoplasma capsulatum from soil;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0036-46651986000100009

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

A case of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis, where the clinical histoiy and epidemiological data led to the identification of H. capsulatum natural source, is described. Specimens of spleen and liver, obtained after intraperitonial inoculation in mice, grew H. capsulatum in culture from the soil of rural area of General Câmara, by the first time in Rio Grande do Sul.

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