Histoplasmosis

September 2005     View PDF     En español
Reprinted from www.aidsmeds.com, US

What are the symptoms?

Most people who are infected with H. capsulatum do not experience any symptoms of disease. If the infection causes active disease, symptoms can include fever, weight loss, skin lesions, breathing difficulties, chest pain, nonproductive (dry) cough, anemia, and enlargement of the liver, spleen, and lymph nodes. The higher the T-cell count, the more likely it is that histoplasmosis will only involve the lungs; the lower the T-cell count, the more likely it is that H. capsulatum will cause disease in other parts of the body.