Clinical Manifestations of Pulmonary Blastomycosis

Article1 October 1959CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF PULMONARY BLASTOMYCOSISROBERT S. ABERNATHY, M.D.ROBERT S. ABERNATHY, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-51-4-707 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn the 20 years that have elapsed since the classic review by Martin and Smith10focused attention on North American blastomycosis, numerous reports2, 4, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15have indicated that blastomycotic infections are not uncommon. The frequency of occurrence of such infections has probably changed very little, but the recognition of them has been increased by several factors, important among which are the greater awareness of clinicians of fungus infections in general, a wider application by clinical diagnostic laboratories of technics for the detection of fungi in material submitted for culture, and the more frequent use of special...Bibliography1. BaderBader MERA: The alveolar-capillary block syndrome, Am. J. Med. 24: 493, 1958. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. ChernissWaisbren EIBA: North American blastomycosis: a clinical study of 40 cases, Ann. Int. Med. 44: 105, 1956. LinkGoogle Scholar3. ConantSmithBakerCallawayMartin NFDTRDJLDS: Manual of clinical mycology, 2nd Ed., 1954, W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. CurtisBocobo ACFC: North American blastomycosis, J. Chron. Dis. 5: 404, 1957. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Little Rock, Arkansas*Received for publication May 16, 1959.Presented at the Fortieth Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, Chicago, Illinois, April 21, 1959.From the Department of Medicine, University of Arkansas Medical Center.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Robert S. Abernathy, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Arkansas School of Medicine, Little Rock, Arkansas. 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