Introduction
Blastomycosis is a disease of mammals caused by the geographically restricted, thermally dimorphic fungi Blastomyces species. Human blastomycosis was first reported by Gilchrist in 1894 in a case of cutaneous disease first mistakenly attributed to protozoan disease (Gilchrist 1894).
Four years later, Gilchrist and Stokes isolated the causative agent, a fungus they called Blastomyces dermatitidis (Gilchrist and Stokes 1898). The first case of canine blastomycosis was reported by Meyer in 1912 (Meyer 1912). Since then, blastomycosis has been recognized as a common and serious disease of people and animals in endemic/enzootic areas.I. S. Schwartz (*)
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
e-mail: ilan.steven.schwartz@gmail.com
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S. Seyedmousavi et al. (eds.), Emerging and Epizootic Fungal Infections in Animals, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72093-7_8
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