ArticleMedical mycology2015
Spatial epidemiology of blastomycosis hospitalizations: detecting clusters and identifying environmental risk factors.
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- Blastomycosis-Some Progress but Still Much to Learn.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Re-drawing the Maps for Endemic Mycoses.Mycopathologia · 2020Review
- Febrile Neutropenia in Acute Leukemia. Epidemiology, Etiology, Pathophysiology and Treatment.Mediterranean journal of hematology and infectious diseases · 2020Review
- Use of Urine Antigen Testing forJournal of patient-centered research and reviews · 2018Article
- Blastomycosis hospitalizations in northwestern Ontario: 2006-2015.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2017Article
- Cellular and Molecular Defects Underlying Invasive Fungal Infections-Revelations from Endemic Mycoses.Frontiers in immunology · 2017Review
- Use of Fungal Diagnostics and Therapy in Pediatric Cancer Patients in Resource-Limited Settings.Current clinical microbiology reports · 2016Article
- Blastomyces Antigen Detection for Diagnosis and Management of Blastomycosis.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Blastomycosis is a disease caused by endemic fungi that ranges from severe pulmonary or disseminated to mild or asymptomatic. Environmental factors associated with it are not well described throughout the endemic area. We used the intramural State Inpatient Database from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and ArcMap GIS to identify geographic high-risk clusters of blastomycosis hospitalizations in 13 states in the US endemic regions (AR, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MI, MN, MO, MS, OH, TN, and WI). We then used logistic regression to identify risk factors associated with these high-risk clusters. We describe six clusters of counties in which there was an elevated incidence of blastomycosis hospitalizations. We identified maximum mean annual temperature, percentage of persons aged ≥65 years, and mercury and copper soil content as being associated with high-risk clusters. Specifically, the odds of a county being part of a high-risk cluster was associated with increasing percentage of population over age 65, decreasing maximum temperature, increasing mercury, and decreasing copper soil content. Healthcare providers should be aware of these high-risk areas so that blastomycosis can be included, as appropriate, in a differential diagnosis for patients currently or previously residing in these areas.
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