PMID: 7024107Jul 1, 1981Paper

Internal mycoses of exogenous origin (author's transl)

Immunität und Infektion
H P Seeliger

Abstract

The increase of both visceral mycoses and designations used for them requires, among other matters an accord on a better non-ambiguous terminology. The disease designation "blastomycosis" is quite obsolete and should be replaced by proper terms such as candida mycosis, cryptococcus mycosis, histoplasma mycosis etc. The frequently used term "systemic mycosis" should be restricted to exogenous mycotic infections of internal organs caused by obligatory pathogenic fungi such as Coccidioides immitis, Histoplasma capsulatum and others. The common term "endomycosis" is considered appropriate for fungal infections provoked by secondary disease provoking fungi of opportunistic pathogenicity especially by species of the form genus Candida. Other mycotic infections of visceral organs, mainly of the respiratory tract f.i. by species of Aspergillus and other molds, are likewise mostly of secondary nature and should not be considered as systemic mycosis in the restricted meaning of the word because of their lacking tendency to dissemination.

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