Theory & Practices of Clinical Laboratory
Theory & Practices of Clinical Laboratory
Samuel Darling, a physician practicing at the Canal Zone Hospital in Panama, initially reported histoplasmosis and named the bacterium in 1904. He mistook the bacterium, which resembled Leishmania in tissues, for a parasite. Histoplasma capsulatum is a thermally dimorphic fungus…
Fungi-caused infections are called mycoses or mycosis (singular). Despite the fact that there are thousands of fungal species in the world, only a small percentage of them cause disease in humans. Superficial, Cutaneous, Subcutaneous, Systemic, and Opportunistic mycoses are the…