Histoplasmosis: an outbreak occurring among young men who visited one cave.
Sixteen cases of acute benign inhalational histoplasmosis were investigated after an outbreak of the disease in a group visiting a cave. The diagnosis was confirmed in 13 patients by chest X-ray examination, histoplasmin skin testing and serological examination. An attempt to isolate the organism Histoplasma capsulatum was unsuccessful. The epidemiology and relationship of the disease to bat ecology is discussed.
D000818:Animals; D001315:Australia; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000382:microbiology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004463:Ecology; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D006660:Histoplasmosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000662:veterinary; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D012988:Soil Microbiology