title: Oral histoplasmosis masquerading as oral cancer in HIV-infected patient: A case report.
abstract: Histoplasmosis is an endemic mycoses caused by Histoplasma capsulatum with endemicity around midwestern United States and central America. The endemicity of histoplasmosis in India is not clearly known. Histoplasmosis, especially oral histoplasmosis, is now increasingly being reported from India. We report here a culture-confirmed and sequence confirmed, oral histoplasmosis in a HIV seropositive individual who was referred to our regional cancer centre with a suspicion of oral cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore 560029, India.
authors.forename: Shafiulla
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mohammed
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore 560029, India.
authors.forename: Mahua
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sinha
authors.affiliation: Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore 560029, India.
authors.forename: Purushottam
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chavan
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Dr MH Marigowda Road, Bangalore 560029, India.
authors.forename: Cs
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Premalata
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Sector 12, Chandigarh 160012, India.
authors.forename: Mr
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shivaprakash
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Sector 12, Chandigarh 160012, India.
authors.forename: Arunaloke
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chakrabarti
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore 560029, India.
authors.forename: Rudrapatna S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Jayshree
keywords: HIV; Histoplasma capsulatum; Oral cancer; Oral histoplasmosis