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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: ; Vidit Bhargava, M.B.B.S [2]

Overview

Blatomycosis is a fungal infection, which was first described by

Historical perspective

• Blastomycosis was discovered by a French botanist/biologist named Philippe Edouard Léon Van Tieghem in 1876.
• Blastomycosis was first described by Thomas Casper Gilchrist [3] in 1894, who initially thought it to be a dermatological disease and hence named it B.dermatidis and sometimes goes by the eponym Gilchrist's disease [4].