A fungal infection caused by inhalation of spores of blastomyces dermatitidis. It presents with flu-like symptoms including fever, chills, cough, pleuritic chest pain and myalgias. It may lead to a chronic granulomatous pulmonary infection and disseminate to other anatomic sites including skin, nervous system and bones.
A fungal infection that may appear in two forms: 1, a primary lesion characterized by the formation of a small cutaneous nodule and small nodules along the lymphatics that may heal within several months; and 2, chronic granulomatous lesions characterized by thick crusts, warty growths, and unusual vascularity and infection in the middle or upper lobes of the lung.
Infection caused by fungi of the genus blastomyces.
Keloidal blastomycosis
Lobo’s disease
Acute pulmonary blastomycosis
Chronic pulmonary blastomycosis
Pulmonary blastomycosis, unspecified
Cutaneous blastomycosis
Disseminated blastomycosis
Other forms of blastomycosis
Blastomycotic meningoencephalitis
Other forms of blastomycosis
Blastomycosis, unspecified