Disseminated histoplasmosis: results of long-term follow-up. A center for disease control cooperative mycoses study
Sarosi, G.A.; Voth, D.W.; Dahl, B.A.; Doto, I.L.; Tosh, F.E.
Annals of Internal Medicine 75(4): 511-516
1971
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-4819 PMID: 5094067 Document Number: 40439
Histoplasma capsulatum was cultured from or observed in specimens other than sputum or lung tissue from 54 cases studied during 1947-69 in 8 hospitals. Amphotericin B was administered intravenously to 24 patients and all but 3 of these survived at least 8 months, 9 being still alive at an av. of 62 months after treatment. Only 2 of the 30 untreated patients survived, 16 dying within 4 months of diagnosis; 8 were diagnosed only at necropsy.
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