Identification of Histoplasma causing an unexplained disease cluster in Matthews Ridge, Guyana

• Main Authors: Ji Wang (Author), Weimin Zhou (Author), Hua Ling (Author), Xiaoping Dong (Author), Yi Zhang (Author), Jiandong Li (Author), Yong Zhang (Author), Jingdong Song (Author), William J. Liu (Author), Yang Li (Author), Ruiqing Zhang (Author), Wei Zhen (Author), Kun Cai (Author), Shuangli Zhu (Author), Dongyan Wang (Author), Jinbo Xiao (Author), Yigang Tong (Author), Wenli Liu (Author), Lihua Song (Author), Wei Wu (Author), Yang Liu (Author), Xiang Zhao (Author), Ruihuan Wang (Author), Sheng Ye (Author), Jing Wang (Author), Roujian Lu (Author), Baoying Huang (Author), Fei Ye (Author), Wenwen Lei (Author), Rongbao Gao (Author), Qi Shi (Author), Cao Chen (Author), Jun Han (Author), Wenbo Xu (Author), George F. Gao (Author), Xuejun Ma (Author), Guizhen Wu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Here, we report the identification of Histoplasma causing an unexplained disease cluster in Matthews Ridge, Guyana. In March 2019, 14 employees of Chongqing Bosai Mining Company, China, working in a manganese mining of Guyana, had unexplained fever, and two of them died. We obtained lung and brain t...