Identification of Histoplasma causing an unexplained disease cluster in Matthews Ridge, Guyana

Identification of Histoplasma causing an unexplained disease cluster in Matthews Ridge, Guyana

Here, we report the identification of Histoplasma causing an unexplained disease cluster in Matthews Ridge, Guyana. In March 2019, 14 employees of Chongqing Bosai Mining Company, China, working in a manganese mining of Guyana, had unexplained fever, and two of them died. We obtained lung and brain t...

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Main Authors: Ji Wang, Weimin Zhou, Hua Ling, Xiaoping Dong, Yi Zhang, Jiandong Li, Yong Zhang, Jingdong Song, William J. Liu, Yang Li, Ruiqing Zhang, Wei Zhen, Kun Cai, Shuangli Zhu, Dongyan Wang, Jinbo Xiao, Yigang Tong, Wenli Liu, Lihua Song, Wei Wu, Yang Liu, Xiang Zhao, Ruihuan Wang, Sheng Ye, Jing Wang, Roujian Lu, Baoying Huang, Fei Ye, Wenwen Lei, Rongbao Gao, Qi Shi, Cao Chen, Jun Han, Wenbo Xu, George F. Gao, Xuejun Ma, Guizhen Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-12-01
Series:Biosafety and Health
Subjects:
Histoplasma
Fever
Histochemical examination
Nanopore high-throughput sequencing
Real-time PCR
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590053619300473

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