"Histoplasma" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A mitosporic Onygenales fungal genus causing HISTOPLASMOSIS in humans and animals. Its single species is Histoplasma capsulatum which has two varieties: H. capsulatum var. capsulatum and H. capsulatum var. duboisii. Its teleomorph is AJELLOMYCES capsulatus.
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D006658
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.300.381.440
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Histoplasma" by people in Profiles.
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Deepe GS, Buesing WR, Ostroff GR, Abraham A, Specht CA, Huang H, Levitz SM. Vaccination with an alkaline extract of Histoplasma capsulatum packaged in glucan particles confers protective immunity in mice. Vaccine. 2018 05 31; 36(23):3359-3367.
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David C, Martin DB, Deng A, Cooper JZ. Disseminated Trichosporon inkin and Histoplasma capsulatum in a patient with newly diagnosed AIDS. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2008 Aug; 59(2 Suppl 1):S13-5.
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Goldman M, Zackin R, Fichtenbaum CJ, Skiest DJ, Koletar SL, Hafner R, Wheat LJ, Nyangweso PM, Yiannoutsos CT, Schnizlein-Bick CT, Owens S, Aberg JA. Safety of discontinuation of maintenance therapy for disseminated histoplasmosis after immunologic response to antiretroviral therapy. Clin Infect Dis. 2004 May 15; 38(10):1485-9.
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Leong JM, Parveen N, Goguen JD. New approaches and old problems in the shadow of bioterrorism. Trends Microbiol. 2002 Mar; 10(3):112-4.
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Weber SM, Levitz SM, Harrison TS. Chloroquine and the fungal phagosome. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2000 Aug; 3(4):349-53.
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Hogan LH, Klein BS, Levitz SM. Virulence factors of medically important fungi. Clin Microbiol Rev. 1996 Oct; 9(4):469-88.