Acute pulmonary histoplasmosis from Ghana.
A male patient developed acute pulmonary histoplasmosis 2 weeks after bathing in the water falls of Wli, Ghana. Exposure to Histoplasma capsulatum was probably mediated through inhalation of an aerosol of water and guano from the large colony of fruit bats of the falls. More cases of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis can be expected.
de Vries
P J
PJ
Division of Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine and AIDS, Department of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. p.j.devries@amc.uva.nl
Koolen
M G J
MG
Mulder
M M S
MM
Kortbeek
L M
LM
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D000908:Antibodies, Fungal / Q000097:blood; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000382:microbiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005335:Fever of Unknown Origin; D005869:Ghana; D006658:Histoplasma / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006660:Histoplasmosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D014195:Travel
D000908:Antibodies, Fungal