This marks a big change for the fungi, once thought to be confined to certain regions.
Three types of fungi that cause serious lung infections and were once thought to be confined to certain regions of the United States are now widespread.fungi grew mainly in Midwest soil and in parts of the East and South, and that’s where histoplasmosis infections mainly occurred. But Medicare records from 2007 through 2016 indicate that 47 states and Washington, D.C.,Histoplasmosis cases, then vs. now fungi caused lung infections mainly in the eastern half of the United States.
These fungi are now “a lot more common than we think they are,” says Andrej Spec, an infectious diseases doctor and mycologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Doctors using maps from the 1950s and ’60s may fail to diagnose infections in patients who live outside of the fungi’s historical borders. Such missed or delayed diagnoses can have deadly consequences.cases and for two other fungi whose ranges have expanded, probably because of climate change.fungi, have spread from their 1955 roots in the Southwest to 35 states, Medicare records indicate.
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