ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2016
Diagnostic Delay and Antibiotic Overuse in Acute Pulmonary Blastomycosis.
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- Delayed Diagnosis of Rhino-Orbito-Facial Mucormycosis in a Patient With Newly Diagnosed Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Successful Case From a Resource-Limited Setting.Case reports in infectious diseases · 2026Article
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- Blastomycosis Masquerading as Tuberculosis: A Diagnostic Challenge in a Patient With Diabetes.Cureus · 2025Article
- Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology Laboratories: Antibody and antigen detection methods for dimorphic fungal infections.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2025Review
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- Perspectives on blastomycosis in Canada in the face of climate change.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2024Article
- Development and validation of a preliminary multivariable diagnostic model for identifying unusual infections in hospitalized patients.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2024Article
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- Blastomycosis-Associated Hospitalizations, United States, 2010-2020.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Traveling Does More Than Widen One's Horizon: Travel History as Key to Diagnosing Blastomycosis.Cureus · 2023Article
- Diagnostic delay in pulmonary blastomycosis: a case series reflecting a referral center experience.Infection · 2023Article
- Endemic Mycoses: Underdiagnosed and Underreported.Annals of internal medicine · 2022Article
- Blastomycosis-Some Progress but Still Much to Learn.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Symptoms in Blastomycosis, Coccidioidomycosis, and Histoplasmosis Versus Other Respiratory Illnesses in Commercially Insured Adult Outpatients-United States, 2016-2017.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
- Diagnostic Methods and Risk Factors for Severe Disease and Mortality in Blastomycosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
The diagnosis of blastomycosis is often delayed. We identified 28 cases of pulmonary blastomycosis in a retrospective chart review. Most patients received multiple antibiotic courses before being diagnosed, and the sputum KOH smear was rarely used. Diagnostic delay can be decreased with higher suspicion for pulmonary blastomycosis and early use of the sputum KOH smear.
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