"Histoplasma" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A mitosporic Onygenales fungal genus causing HISTOPLASMOSIS in humans and animals. Its single species is Histoplasma capsulatum which has two varieties: H. capsulatum var. capsulatum and H. capsulatum var. duboisii. Its teleomorph is AJELLOMYCES capsulatus.
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D006658
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.300.381.440
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Histoplasma" by people in Profiles.
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Parihar A, Tomar V, Ojha BK, Husain N, Gupta RK. Magnetic resonance imaging findings in a patient with isolated histoplasma brain abscess. Arch Neurol. 2011 Apr; 68(4):534-5.
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Alverson B, Alexander N, LeGolvan MP, Dunlap W, Levy C. A human immunodeficiency virus-positive infant with probable congenital histoplasmosis in a nonendemic area. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2010 Nov; 29(11):1055-7.
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Hecht FM, Wheat J, Korzun AH, Hafner R, Skahan KJ, Larsen R, Limjoco MT, Simpson M, Schneider D, Keefer MC, Clark R, Lai KK, Jacobson JM, Squires K, Bartlett JA, Powderly W. Itraconazole maintenance treatment for histoplasmosis in AIDS: a prospective, multicenter trial. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Hum Retrovirol. 1997 Oct 01; 16(2):100-7.
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Wheat J, Hafner R, Wulfsohn M, Spencer P, Squires K, Powderly W, Wong B, Rinaldi M, Saag M, Hamill R, Murphy R, Connolly-Stringfield P, Briggs N, Owens S. Prevention of relapse of histoplasmosis with itraconazole in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Ann Intern Med. 1993 Apr 15; 118(8):610-6.