Siddiqi S H, Stauffer J C
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1980 Jan;29(1):109-11. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.1980.29.109.
A total of 575 subjects, comprising healthy men, women, and school children as well as pulmonary tuberculosis and leprosy patients in different areas of the Punjab region of Pakistan, were tested for histoplasmin skin sensitivity. All, with the exception of those who presumably had been exposed to the fungus in some other country, were found to be non-reactors to histoplasm. The preliminary findings suggest that histoplasmosis is not endemic in this area, as the general population seems to be free from exposure to the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum.
对巴基斯坦旁遮普地区不同区域的575名受试者进行了组织胞浆菌素皮肤敏感性测试，这些受试者包括健康男性、女性、学童以及肺结核和麻风病患者。除了那些可能在其他国家接触过该真菌的人之外，所有受试者对组织胞浆菌素均无反应。初步研究结果表明，组织胞浆菌病在该地区并非地方病，因为普通人群似乎未接触过荚膜组织胞浆菌。
