Disseminated histoplasmosis in an immunocompetent patient - utility of skin scrape cytology in diagnosis: a case report

BACKGROUND: Histoplasma capsulatum is a dimorphic fungus predominately found in soils enriched with bird and bat excreta. Although several cases of histoplasmosis have been reported in India, diagnosis using cytology has been done in very few cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We report here a case of dissem...

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Autores principales: Santosh, Tummidi, Kothari, Kanchan, Singhal, Shruti S., Shah, Vyoma V., Patil, Roshni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5765674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29325597
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1543-5
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author Santosh, Tummidi
Kothari, Kanchan
Singhal, Shruti S.
Shah, Vyoma V.
Patil, Roshni
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description BACKGROUND: Histoplasma capsulatum is a dimorphic fungus predominately found in soils enriched with bird and bat excreta. Although several cases of histoplasmosis have been reported in India, diagnosis using cytology has been done in very few cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We report here a case of disseminated histoplasmosis in a 46-year-old Indian man. CONCLUSION: Skin scrape cytology is a simple, safe, and rapid technique to establish the initial diagnosis, thus promoting early treatment and favorable outcome, in cutaneous fungal infections.
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spelling pubmed-57656742018-01-17 Disseminated histoplasmosis in an immunocompetent patient - utility of skin scrape cytology in diagnosis: a case report Santosh, Tummidi Kothari, Kanchan Singhal, Shruti S. Shah, Vyoma V. Patil, Roshni J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Histoplasma capsulatum is a dimorphic fungus predominately found in soils enriched with bird and bat excreta. Although several cases of histoplasmosis have been reported in India, diagnosis using cytology has been done in very few cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We report here a case of disseminated histoplasmosis in a 46-year-old Indian man. CONCLUSION: Skin scrape cytology is a simple, safe, and rapid technique to establish the initial diagnosis, thus promoting early treatment and favorable outcome, in cutaneous fungal infections. BioMed Central 2018-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5765674/ /pubmed/29325597 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1543-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Santosh, Tummidi
Kothari, Kanchan
Singhal, Shruti S.
Shah, Vyoma V.
Patil, Roshni
Disseminated histoplasmosis in an immunocompetent patient - utility of skin scrape cytology in diagnosis: a case report
title Disseminated histoplasmosis in an immunocompetent patient - utility of skin scrape cytology in diagnosis: a case report
title_full Disseminated histoplasmosis in an immunocompetent patient - utility of skin scrape cytology in diagnosis: a case report
title_fullStr Disseminated histoplasmosis in an immunocompetent patient - utility of skin scrape cytology in diagnosis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated histoplasmosis in an immunocompetent patient - utility of skin scrape cytology in diagnosis: a case report
title_short Disseminated histoplasmosis in an immunocompetent patient - utility of skin scrape cytology in diagnosis: a case report
title_sort disseminated histoplasmosis in an immunocompetent patient - utility of skin scrape cytology in diagnosis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5765674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29325597
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1543-5
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