Symptoms in Blastomycosis, Coccidioidomycosis, and Histoplasmosis Versus Other Respiratory Illnesses in Commercially Insured Adult Outpatients-United States, 2016-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, and histoplasmosis cause various symptoms and syndromes, which may present similarly to other infections such as bacterial or viral community-acquired pneumonia, influenza, and tuberculosis.

Methods

We used the IBM MarketScan Research Databases to identify adult outpatients with International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM), diagnosis codes during 2016-2017 for blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, pneumonia (viral, bacterial, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and unspecified pneumonia), influenza; tuberculosis, and other lower and upper respiratory infections. We compared symptoms on and in the 90 days before diagnosis between patients with these diagnosis codes.

Results

SUBMITTER: Benedict K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8340310 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature