A Report of 12 Selected Cases of Pulmonary Histoplasmosis

Abstract

Once considered a rare and fatal disease, histoplasmosis is now increasingly suspected or diagnosed. There may be two apparent reasons for this; first, it is possible that pulmonary histoplasmosis has always been prevalent, but increase in knowledge and modern diagnostic

Pulmonary histoplasmosis: A case report

“…Following this the number of cases has been increasing in most countries in the world. 5 The first histoplasmosis survey was done in Bangladesh in 1961 (then East Pakistan), which revealed that 12-23% of people had a positive skin reaction to histoplasmin. 6 The first case of histoplasmosis was reported1982 in Bangladesh 7 and the second case in 2005.…”