EPIDEMIC OF HISTOPLASMOSIS, AN

Duration: 17 min

Year Published: 1961

Creator: National Medical Audiovisual Center (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare)

Color: Color

Sound: Optical sound

Description: Explains how an epidemic of acute respiratory disease in a Boy Scout troop is investigated by chest survey, histoplasmin skin tests, and complement fixation to confirm histoplasmosis. Discusses the soil cultures of the site of exposure, a startling root, explaining that they implicate the guano-fertilized park area.