Kauffman Carol A
University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2006 Sep;20(3):645-62, vii. doi: 10.1016/j.idc.2006.07.002.
The endemic mycoses are diverse group of fungi that share several characteristics. They are able to cause disease in healthy hosts, they each occupy a specific ecologic niche in the environment, and they exhibit temperature dimorphism, existing as molds in the environment at temperature of 25 degrees C to 30 degrees C, and as yeasts, or spherules in the case of coccidioidomycosis, at body temperatures. This article discusses histoplasmosis and blastomycosis. Sporotrichosis, which differs in that it is usually a localized lymphocutaneous infection, is included because it shares the characteristics of endemic mycoses.
地方性真菌病是一类具有多种共同特征的真菌。它们能够在健康宿主体内引发疾病，在环境中各自占据特定的生态位，并且呈现温度双态性，在25摄氏度至30摄氏度的环境温度下以霉菌形式存在，而在体温下则以酵母形式存在，球孢子菌病的情况下以球形体形式存在。本文讨论组织胞浆菌病和芽生菌病。孢子丝菌病通常是一种局限性淋巴皮肤感染，因其具有地方性真菌病的特征也被纳入讨论。
