Histoplasma capsulatum: Occurrence in Soil from the Emilia-Romagna Region of Italy

5 February 1965

journal article
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 147 (3658) , 624
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.147.3658.624

Abstract

The existence of an area in Europe in which histoplasmosis is endemic was revealed by the isolation of Histoplasma capsulatum from soil. The soil specimen was collected in a chicken yard on a farm near Bologna, Italy. The Emilia-Romagna region had been selected for study because several, apparently autochthonous, human cases of histoplasmosis had originated there.

Keywords

SOIL MICROBIOLOGY
EPIDEMIOLOGY
HISTOPLASMA
ITALY
HISTOPLASMOSIS