Risk Factors for Acquisition of Endemic Blastomycosis

Affiliations

Maxym Choptiany: Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Lyle Wiebe: Northwestern Health Unit, Kenora, Ontario, Canada
Bill Limerick: Northwestern Health Unit, Kenora, Ontario, Canada
Pete Sarsfield: Northwestern Health Unit, Kenora, Ontario, Canada
Mary Cheang: Department of Community Health Sciences, Statistical Consulting Unit, Canada
Bruce Light: Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Greg Hammond: Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Kerry MacDonald: Lake of the Woods District Hospital, Kenora, Ontario, Canada
Elly Trepman: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Grand Itasca Clinic & Hospital, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA
Peter Pappas: Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
John M Embil: Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Blastomycosis is potentially fatal, but environmental risk factors for acquiring blastomycosis are not well established.

ISSN: 1712-9532 (Print); 1918-1493 (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases; Science: Microbiology
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/9575