The Journal of family practice
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Review Case Reports
A case report of disseminated blastomycosis and adult respiratory distress syndrome.
Blastomycosis is a fungal disease endemic to the midwestern and southeastern United States. This is a case report of a 29-year-old woman who presented with weight loss, fever, fatigue, and pneumonia. ⋯ Blastomycosis is endemic to a large portion of the United States. Family physicians should consider fungal infection in the differential diagnosis of an unresolving pneumonia.