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What is What is true about Histoplasmosis - and explain in detail?
Chronic cavitary histoplasmosis is seen in smokers who have structural lung disease (e.g. bullous emphysema) is characterized upper-lobe infiltrates, cavitation, and pleural thickening- mimics cavitary tuberculosis.
Isolation of fungi by culture and demonstration of dimorphism is diagnostic.
Reservoir of infection: Soil
Microconidia (spores) are the infective form and mode of infection is inhalation.
Person to person or animal to man transmission in not known so far for Histoplasmosis.