Mohammed Shafiulla, Sinha Mahua, Chavan Purushottam, Premalata Cs, Shivaprakash Mr, Chakrabarti Arunaloke, Jayshree Rudrapatna S
Department of Microbiology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore 560029, India.
Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore 560029, India.
Med Mycol Case Rep. 2012 Sep 18;1(1):85-7. doi: 10.1016/j.mmcr.2012.09.002. eCollection 2012.
Histoplasmosis is an endemic mycoses caused by Histoplasma capsulatum with endemicity around midwestern United States and central America. The endemicity of histoplasmosis in India is not clearly known. Histoplasmosis, especially oral histoplasmosis, is now increasingly being reported from India. We report here a culture-confirmed and sequence confirmed, oral histoplasmosis in a HIV seropositive individual who was referred to our regional cancer centre with a suspicion of oral cancer.
组织胞浆菌病是由荚膜组织胞浆菌引起的一种地方性真菌病,在美国中西部和中美洲呈地方性流行。印度组织胞浆菌病的流行情况尚不清楚。目前,印度越来越多地报告组织胞浆菌病,尤其是口腔组织胞浆菌病。我们在此报告一例经培养确诊和序列确认的口腔组织胞浆菌病,患者为一名HIV血清阳性个体,因疑似口腔癌被转诊至我们的地区癌症中心。