TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Opportunistic Fungal Infections A1 - Pfaller, Michael A. A2 - Wallace, Robert B. PY - 2017 T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e AB - Fungal infections, or mycoses, may be broken into two broad categories: (a) endemic and (b) opportunistic. The endemic mycoses are those in which susceptibility to the infection is acquired by living in a geographic area constituting the natural habitat of the particular fungus. The most commonly encountered endemic mycoses in North America are due to Histoplasma capsulatum, Coccidioides immitis/posadasii, Blastomyces dermatitidis, and Sporothrix schenckii. Infection due to these agents is usually acquired by inhalation of conidia from an environmental source. Although infections with these fungal pathogens are clearly important, a more pressing problem now is that of the opportunistic mycoses, which carry a particularly high mortality and appear to be increasing significantly. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Medical CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141967652 ER -