what ia aspergilloma?
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Pulmonary aspergillosis is an allergic reaction to a fungus called aspergillus, which causes inflammation of the airways and air sacs of the lungs.\n\nCauses, incidence, and risk factors:    \n\nThe aspergillus fungus is common. It can grow on dead leaves, stored grain, bird droppings, compost stacks and other decaying vegetation. Although most people are frequently exposed to aspergillus, infections caused by it such as a pneumonia or fungus ball (aspergilloma) are rare.\n\nSome people, however, have an allergic reaction (hypersensitivity) to this fungus, which is called allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). It is characterized by inflammation of the airways (bronchi) or air sacs (alveoli). The disease may mimic asthma or pneumonia, and, in fact, most patients with ABPA have asthma as well.\n\nPatients with asthma or cystic fibrosis are at highest risk for allergic aspergillosis.\n\nSymptoms:\n\nworsening symptoms of asthma \nwheezing \ncough may produce brownish plugs or bloody sputum \nfever \n\nSigns and tests:    \n\nelevated CBC eosinophil count \nelevated serum IgE antibodies: total IgE level and level of IgE specific for aspergillus \naspergillus antigen skin test \npositive serum aspergillus antibodies \nchest X-ray showing infiltrates and finger-like shadows \nchest CAT scan showing central bronchiectasis (dilation of the airways) or mucous plugging \nsputum stain and culture for fungus \nbronchoscopy with cultures and transbronchial biopsy \nrarely lung biopsy is required \n\nTreatment:    \n\nAllergic aspergillosis is treated with oral prednisone. The anti-fungal antibiotic, itraconazole, can also be helpful. People with asthma should also continue their usual inhaler treatments.\n\nExpectations (prognosis):    \n\nThe response to therapy is usually good, with improvement over time. Relapses requiring repeat treatment are common.\n\nComplications:    \n\nirreversible airway obstruction \nbronchiectasis \nmucous plugging \nrespiratory failure \nCalling your health care provider    \n\nCall your health care provider if symptoms of this disorder develop.\n\nCall your health care provider if breathing becomes more difficult. Severe breathing difficulty is an emergency.\n\nPrevention:  \n\nPeople with predisposing factors (asthma, cystic fibrosis, etc.) should try to avoid environments where this fungus is found if possible.
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coccidiomycocis, aspergillosis, and blastomycosis
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I believe an antifungal
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Cannestan cream from the pharmacy...its anti fungal, should help.
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It is a protrusion from a fungus, if I remember correctly. It is necessary for feeding saprophytically, that is secreting digestive enzymes into food then absorbing the digested food.
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Most likely fungal cell walls
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fungis...he should go to a dr...it could be bad!
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My best guess would be Mycobacterium tuberculosis.  Both C. immitis and H. capsulatum have the potential to cause chronic pulmonary disease.  Also, chronic histoplasmosis can cause coin-shaped lesions that resemble tuberculosis.
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A Filipino biologist, Dr. Lina Villacarlos, recently discovered a new breed of parasitic fungus. She named it Entomorphthora leyteensis because it falls under the fungus family known as Entomorphthorales – a family that is classified as parasites on insect like the common housefly – and leyteensis from the name of the place where she discovered it, that is Leyte. \n\nEDWARD QUINTO A Luminous Vision : This Filipino biologist has worked tirelessly to make use of low-cost, local resources to help his country and people.\n\nEarly in the 1960's, Filipino biologist (Dioscoro) Rabor alerted the world that this magnificent bird was in serious danger of extinction. Eagles were found on only four of the 1,700 islands of the Philippine Archipelago. A handful of birds were reported on Leyte and Samar, with the majority on the islands of Luzor and Mindanao.\n\nCarmela Española, a Filipino wildlife biologist, found a group of these dark brown birds with their distinctive orange-red bills and legs foraging in the undergrowth near a stream while she was walking through a rainforest on May 11 this year.\nHer notes and photographs, along with the recordings of the bird’s loud, harsh, rasping calls, later helped determine that the species was not only new to her, but also new to science. Locals, however, know the bird by the name ‘piding’. Some residents said the birds were there sometimes even caught for food.\n\nWood describes how he was brought by Dr Alcala, a distinguished Filipino biologist, to the one island where the reef was expected to be safe, since a marine nature reserve had saved it from dynamiting. Only to find it swarming with illegal squatters, driven by hunger to invade, fish out and ruin the last reserve
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mildew is a fungus which proliferates in cold, damp conditions. It is recognised by its black, spotty appearance in clothes, and around tapps and sinks in bathrooms.\nPart of the mould which forms mildew is something called the aspergillus, which causes a rare but serious disease called allergic broncho-pulmonary aspergillosis. This is an allergy to the aspergillus which causes lung damage, and usually affects asthma sufferers. There is no cure for this disease yet, and at the moment it is treated with steroids and a drug called sporanox.\nHope this has helped.
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Infectious mononucleosis (also known in North America as mono, the kissing disease or Pfeiffer's disease, and more commonly known as glandular fever in other English-speaking countries) is a disease seen most commonly in adolescents and young adults, characterized by fever, sore throat and fatigue. It is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) or the cytomegalovirus (CMV). It is typically transmitted from asymptomatic individuals through saliva or blood, or by sharing a drinking glass, eating utensils, or needles. The disease is far less contagious than is commonly thought. Since the causative virus is also found in the mucous of the infected person, it can also spread through coughing or sneezing.
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click here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidiasis
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chest muscles or still some kind of lung inflammation.Take a asprin an see if it goes away if so see a doc
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candidiasis\na fungal infection\npossibly immunosuppressed?\n\nyou need antifungal oral medication - like nystatin
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There is a really knowledgeable mycologist at the U of Alberta by the name of Randy Currah.  He is quite well known, but I don't know if he's THE keading mycologist.  By the way, the fungi is redundant.  Mycologists study fungi.  Check out the link below!  Good luck
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It is a multicellular, filamentous fungus called Rhizopus
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Pillows can harbor Aspergillus fumigatus, a fungus that exacerbates asthma symptoms.  Histoplasma capsulatum is a fungus that is found in the soil and causes histoplasmosis, a disease of the lungs with symptoms like tuberculosis, which can then spread to other organs.  Pneumocystis pneumonia, a common cause of death in AIDS patients, is an opportunistic lung infection caused by the fungus Pneumocystis carinii, which was previously considered a protozoan.