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Progressive disseminated histoplasmosis is an infection caused by Histoplasma capsulatum, and most people who develop this severe form of histoplasmosis are immunocompromised or taking systemic corticosteroids.^[1]^:316 Skin lesions are present in approximately 6% of patients with dissemination.^[1]^:316

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^ ^a ^b James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 0-7216-2921-0.

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Infectious diseases · Mycoses and Mesomycetozoea (B35–B49, 110–118)

Superficial and
cutaneous
(dermatomycosis):
Tinea=skin;
Piedra (exothrix/
endothrix)=hair

Ascomycota

Dermatophyte
(Dermatophytosis)

By location	Tinea barbae/Tinea capitis (Kerion) · Tinea corporis (Ringworm, Dermatophytid) · Tinea cruris · Tinea manuum · Tinea pedis (Athlete's foot) · Tinea unguium/Onychomycosis (White superficial onychomycosis · Distal subungual onychomycosis · Proximal subungual onychomycosis) Tinea corporis gladiatorum · Tinea faciei · Tinea imbricata · Tinea incognito · Favus

By organism	Epidermophyton floccosum · Microsporum canis · Microsporum audouinii · Trichophyton interdigitale/mentagrophytes · Trichophyton tonsurans · Trichophyton schoenleini · Trichophyton rubrum

Other

Hortaea werneckii (Tinea nigra) · Piedraia hortae (Black piedra)

Basidiomycota

Malassezia furfur (Tinea versicolor, Pityrosporum folliculitis) · Trichosporon spp (White piedra)

Subcutaneous,
systemic,
and opportunistic

Ascomycota

Dimorphic
(yeast+mold)

Yeast-like

Candida albicans (Candidiasis, Oral, Esophageal, Vulvovaginal, Chronic mucocutaneous, Antibiotic candidiasis, Candidal intertrigo, Candidal onychomycosis, Candidal paronychia, Candidid, Diaper candidiasis, Congenital cutaneous candidiasis, Perianal candidiasis, Systemic candidiasis, Erosio interdigitalis blastomycetica) · C. glabrata · C. tropicalis · C. lusitaniae · Pneumocystis jirovecii (Pneumocystosis, Pneumocystis pneumonia)

Mold-like

Aspergillus (Aspergillosis, Aspergilloma, Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, Primary cutaneous aspergillosis) · Exophiala jeanselmei (Eumycetoma) · Fonsecaea pedrosoi/Fonsecaea compacta/Phialophora verrucosa (Chromoblastomycosis) · Geotrichum candidum (Geotrichosis) · Pseudallescheria boydii (Allescheriasis)

Basidiomycota

Cryptococcus neoformans (Cryptococcosis), Trichosporon spp (Trichosporonosis)

Zygomycota
(Zygomycosis)

Mucorales (Mucormycosis)	Rhizopus oryzae · Mucor indicus · Absidia corymbifera · Syncephalastrum racemosum

Entomophthorales (Entomophthoramycosis)	Basidiobolus ranarum (Basidiobolomycosis) · Conidiobolus coronatus/Conidiobolus incongruus (Conidiobolomycosis)

Microsporidia
(Microsporidiosis)

Enterocytozoon bieneusi/Encephalitozoon intestinalis

Mesomycetozoea

Rhinosporidium seeberi (Rhinosporidiosis)

Ungrouped

Alternariosis · Fungal folliculitis · Fusarium (Fusariosis) · Granuloma gluteale infantum · Hyalohyphomycosis · Otomycosis · Phaeohyphomycosis

M: MYC

fung, clas

fung

drug (fung)

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