Histoplasmosis in a Life-Long Resident of New England

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IT is now well known that histoplasmosis exceptionally is a fatal disease of the reticuloendothelial system, occurring solely in the tropics or in the states bordering the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries. The vastly more common, nonfatal, localized, pulmonary and even disseminated forms have been diagnosed in widespread localities where the index of suspicion is high and proper mycologic technics are utilized.1 2 3 It is the purpose of this paper to describe the first proved case of histoplasmosis from New England, in a native of Vermont who had never visited in the endemic areas mentioned above, and to stress the . . .

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