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- noun A disease caused by the inhalation of spores of the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum, most often asymptomatic but occasionally producing acute pneumonia or an influenzalike illness and spreading to other organs and systems in the body.
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- noun pathology A
lung disease caused by afungus , Histoplasma capsulatum, oftenasymptomatic otherwise with symptoms similar to those offlu .
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Examples
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Dr. Jeffrey Siegel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the agency recently became concerned when 240 cases of a fungal infection called histoplasmosis surfaced in people taking the arthritis drugs, resulting in 45 deaths.
FDA-Approved Arthritis Drugs Could Lead to Fatal Fungal Infections 2008
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Use of Cimzia, Enbrel Humira and Remicade may put patients at risk for deadly fungal infections such as histoplasmosis, blastomycosis, and coccidioidomycosis (San Joaquin Valley Fever). disease that seeks out the patient's lungs as primary target for its workings, has been known since 1905 as Darling's disease.
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How did it become a blockbuster even though such drugs which include Remicade, Enbrel and Cimzia and are called TNF blockers are linked to TB, rare cancers and lethal infections like histoplasmosis?
Martha Rosenberg: Blockbuster Drug Causes Cancer, TB and Lethal Infections Martha Rosenberg 2011
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How did it become a blockbuster even though such drugs which include Remicade, Enbrel and Cimzia and are called TNF blockers are linked to TB, rare cancers and lethal infections like histoplasmosis?
Martha Rosenberg: Blockbuster Drug Causes Cancer, TB and Lethal Infections Martha Rosenberg 2011
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You really don't understand pneumonia (and probably can't treat it very well) until you understand how different the disease caused by influenza virus is from the one caused by the tuberculosis bacterium or the histoplasmosis fungus.
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Eleven years ago, Nicole was diagnosed with ocular histoplasmosis and became blind in one eye, and, like me, she developed macular degeneration.
Jim Gibbons: People Who Are Blind Must Have Visions of Greatness 2010
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Eleven years ago, Nicole was diagnosed with ocular histoplasmosis and became blind in one eye, and, like me, she developed macular degeneration.
Jim Gibbons: People Who Are Blind Must Have Visions of Greatness 2010
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The first thing I remember about Earth day were reports of some cases of histoplasmosis in a group of well meaning well-meaners who breathed in a bunch of fungal spores when they set out to clean up their little portions of the earth.
Archive 2009-04-01 james gaulte 2009
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The first thing I remember about Earth day were reports of some cases of histoplasmosis in a group of well meaning well-meaners who breathed in a bunch of fungal spores when they set out to clean up their little portions of the earth.
Earth Day -some cogent counterpoints to the standard green koolaid james gaulte 2009
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Patients who take any of the four arthritis drugs and exhibit any signs of histoplasmosis, including persistent fever, cough, shortness of breath or fatigue, are urged to call their doctor.
FDA-Approved Arthritis Drugs Could Lead to Fatal Fungal Infections 2008
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Scientific American: 'Now drug regulators say a class of medicines called TNF alpha blockers such as Enbrel, Remicade, Humira and Cimzia must carry stronger warnings that they pose a serious risk of histoplasmosis infection, a respiratory or blood illness caused by fungi endemic to the Midwest.'
September 6, 2008