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A 53-year-old man experienced relapse of pulmonary blastomycosis 9 years after having been treated successfully with amphotericin B and responded satisfactorily to retreatment. Relapse of blastomycosis after adequate treatment with amphotericin B is apparently uncommon. However, published reports include relatively few patients who have had long-term follow-up.
Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis is being recognized with increasing frequency in the United States. The characteristics of the disease are recurrent pyrexia, cough, wheezing, sputum plugs containing aspergilli, fleeting pulmonary infiltrates, eosinophilia, dual skin reactions (immediate and late), and antibodies to the fungus in the blood. The pathogenetic mechanism is believed to involve type I and type III hypersensitivity reactions. Adrenal corticosteroids are effective in treating this condition.
A 53-year-old man developed pulmonary tuberculosis, presumably reactivation, with ten days of sustaining multiple fractured ribs. Tuberculous bronchopneumonia developed in the right lung adjacent to the site of injury and spread to the contralateral lung. Sputum smears were positive for acid-fast bacilli three weeks after trauma. Theories for the reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis secondary to trauma are reviewed.
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