Are there different types of histoplasmosis?
Histoplasmosis has three major types of disease, and these three have other subtypes included in them. They are summarized with their subtypes as follows: • acute pulmonary histoplasmosis; asymptomatic and symptomatic; • chronic pulmonary histoplasmosis; chronic lung symptoms and occasionally ocular involvement termed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome; and • progressive disseminated histoplasmosis: chronic progressive disseminated histoplasmosis with oropharyngeal lesions or ulcers; subacute progressive disseminated histoplasmosis with intestinal, adrenal, cardiac or central nervous system (CNS) involvement; and acute progressive disseminated histoplasmosis with encephalopathy, meningitis, mass lesions and cutaneous (skin) lesions. Drawings and pictures of some of the different types of histoplasmosis are available at the last Web site listed below.
