Rappo U, Beitler J R, Faulhaber J R, Firoz B, Henning J S, Thomas K M, Maslow M, Goldfarb D S, Horowitz H W
Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
Transpl Infect Dis. 2010 Apr;12(2):155-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2009.00466.x. Epub 2009 Oct 29.
Histoplasmosis is recognized to occur in the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys of the United States, but less widely appreciated is its worldwide distribution. We report a case of disseminated histoplasmosis with disease involving skin, lungs, and epiglottis in a renal transplant patient 6 months after a trip to Bangladesh, to highlight the potential risk of acquisition of this infection in the Indian subcontinent.
