In the present issue of Chest (see page 1171), Valente Barbas Filho et al report two Brazilian patients with progressive respiratory failure attributed to disseminated granulomatous pulmonary adiaspiromycosis, demonstrated by lung biopsy. [journal.chestnet.org]

The role of corticosteroids in the treatment of adiaspiromycosis remains largely unexplored. There is clearly much that remains to be learned about this uncommon and fascinating disease. [journal.chestnet.org]

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Google Scholar Subsequently, human infection was reported from Czechoslovakia, where most of the work characterizing this disease and its etiologic agent has been done, and from the USSR, Central America, and Venezuela., Although adiaspiromycosis occurs [journal.chestnet.org]

Epidemiology and Pathology Chrysosporium parvum var. crescens is a dimorphic fungus which grows slowly in culture as a septate, branching mycelium. It causes a very rare fungal infection of the respiratory tract. [info.isradiology.org]