Histoplasma capsulatum

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This page is about microbiologic aspects of the organism(s).  For clinical aspects of the disease, see Histoplasmosis.

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

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  Photomicrograph reveals some of the ultrastructural details exhibited by Histoplasma capsulatum fungal organisms that had been extracted from a Jamaican isolate, which included a number of tuberculate (knobby) spheroidal macroconidia, and diaphanous filamentous hyphae (800X). From Public Health Image Library (PHIL).

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  This Giemsa-stained photomicrograph reveals numerous Histoplasma capsulatum fungal organisms in their yeast-stage of development, which were seen in this liver tissue specimen, in this case of disseminated histoplasmosis. From Public Health Image Library (PHIL).