How to Use blastomycosis in a Sentence

blastomycosis

noun
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  • For others, symptoms of blastomycosis often mirror a cold or flu — cough, fever, body aches, night sweats.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2023
  • People can get blastomycosis after breathing in the microscopic fungal spores from the air, the CDC says.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The Billerud blastomycosis outbreak is the largest of its kind in an industrial setting in U.S. history.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2023
  • Fungal find Usually, St. Croix reports one to five cases of blastomycosis a year.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2023
  • So why hasn't a blastomycosis outbreak like this happened before?
    — Freep.com, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Symptoms of blastomycosis usually appear between three weeks and three months after a person has breathed in the fungal spores, but not everyone who is exposed will get sick.
    — Fox News, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Some other fungal diseases of humans are also on the move, such as histoplasmosis and blastomycosis.
    — Mark Takahashi, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Most notable, over the past year or so, the family told her, three dogs at the development, including one belonging to the boy’s grandparents, had been infected with blastomycosis.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
  • And other researchers have identified cases of a novel blastomycosis in Saskatchewan and Alberta, pushing the map of where that infection occurs further north and west.
    — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
  • It’s known to cause infection—called blastomycosis—in humans and animals.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2017
  • Testing then revealed that the cases were not pneumonia but a fungal infection called blastomycosis.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • At least one person has died, and 96 others have been sickened, in an outbreak of blastomycosis at a northwest Michigan paper mill, local health authorities confirmed Friday.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Blastomyces causes a nasty disease, blastomycosis, which causes lesions to form in the skin, internal organs and nervous system.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Although the number of blastomycosis cases has increased since the previous update, that doesn’t necessarily mean exposures are ongoing, the county health departments said Friday.
    — Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN, 1 May 2023
  • Histoplasmosis and blastomycosis also pose risks to humans.
    — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 25 Sep. 2021
  • So, as the blastomycosis outbreak emerged, the community activated.
    — Freep.com, 23 Apr. 2023
  • In some people, especially those with weakened immune systems, blastomycosis can become serious.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The health department began investigating an outbreak at the mill last month after sick employees, ailing from pneumonialike symptoms, tested positive for a fungal infection called blastomycosis.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 17 Apr. 2023
  • That was when additional testing by medical personnel discovered the blastomycosis.
    — Keith Matheny, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Though mostly asymptomatic, pneumonia is often how blastomycosis manifests.
    — Murat Can Kalem, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2019

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