Blastomycosis North American

Two of the most common endemic fungal infections (histoplasmosis and North American blastomycosis) are found in... 

North American blastomycosis is a systemic fungal infection caused by Blastomyces dermatitidis. 

Blastomycosis was KWdim d North American blastomycosis in 1942, when Conant and Howell named a similar fungus endemic to South America, Blastomyces braziliensis, and the disease it caused South American blastomycosis. Although the disease is now recognized to be endemic to the southeastern and south central states of the United States (especially those bordering on the Mississippi and Ohio River basins) and the midwestem states and Canadian provinces bordering... 

Some rare, but often fatal, systemic fungal diseases, such as histoplasmosis and North American blastomycosis yield to injections of amphotericin B (5.7, p. 166), but its selectivity is only moderate (for mode of action, see Section 14.2). A related substance, nystatin, is used for superficial candiasis and for those infections of the gut with Candida albicans that sometimes follow tetracycline therapy. 

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