Laboratory-Acquired Histoplasmosis

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Abstract
ALTHOUGH naturally acquired histoplasmosis is being recognized with increasing frequency1 there are few reports in the literature of infection with Histoplasma capsulatum acquired in the laboratory. Sulkin and Pike,2 in 1951, summarized 1342 cases of infections presumably acquired as the result of laboratory work in the United States. Approximately a third of these infections have been recorded in the literature; the remainder were discovered by means of a questionnaire mailed to nearly 5000 laboratories. Thirty-nine of these patients died — a mortality of 3 per cent. No cases of histoplasmosis were recorded in this survey.In 1952 Furcolow et al. . . .

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