title: [Histologic diagnosis of African histoplasmosis (the first case of the disease in the USSR)].
abstract: The findings obtained from histological examination of a biopsy specimen enabled a case of African histoplasmosis to be first recorded in the USSR. The disease was detected in an African student who had had a long-term latent period. The diagnosis was culturally and clinically verified. The problems of the histological differential diagnosis of African histoplasmosis are also discussed.
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Bykov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000349:Africa; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006660:Histoplasmosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014586:USSR
vernacular_title: Gistologicheskaia diagnostika afrikanskogo gistoplazmoza (pervoe nabliudenie zabolevania v SSSR.