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| | eMedicine - Blastomycosis : Article Excerpt by: Avinash Shetty, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Background: Blastomycosis, which originally was described by Gilchrist and Stokes in 1894 and 1896, is an endemic systemic pyogranulomatous mycosis caused by the thermally dimorphic fungus, Blastomyces dermatitidis. |
 | | Because of the erroneous belief that the disease is limited only to the United States, blastomycosis often is referred by the term North American blastomycosis, which is an obsolete term. |
 | | Likewise, South American blastomycosis (ie, Brazilian blastomycosis) is an older name for paracoccidioidomycosis, a chronic often fatal mycosis caused by a large dimorphic fungus, Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. |
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