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Mycotic Infections

1945; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 233; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejm194508092330604

1533-4406

John Godwin Downing, Norman F. Conant,

Nail Diseases and Treatments

Systemic MycosesIncluded in this category are diseases caused by a wide variety of fungi, each of which may invade any tissue of the body, producing widespread infection resulting in death. These fungi induce a granulomatous type of infection, and differential diagnosis must include tuberculosis, syphilis, granulomas and neoplasms. Coccidioidomycosis This is a highly infectious disease caused by Coccidioides immitis that produces a high incidence of infection, as shown by positive skin tests with coccidioidin, among native populations in the endemic areas of the San Joaquin Valley in California, around Phoenix and Tucson in Arizona and around San Angelo in . . .