Blastomyces dermatitidis

Blastomyces dermatitidis
A dimorphic soil fungus that causes blastomycosis. It grows in mammalian tissues as budding cells and in culture as a white to buff-colored filamentous fungus bearing spherical or ovoid conidia on terminal or lateral short, slender conidiophores. In its perfect (teleomorph) state it is known as Ajellomyces dermatitidis. [blasto- + G. mykes, fungus]

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a species endemic in the midwestern United States and adjacent parts of Canada, the etiologic agent of North American blastomycosis; its perfect (sexual) stage is Ajellomyces dermatitidis.

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