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* A flulike illness with [[fever]], [[chills]], [[myalgia]], [[headache]], and a nonproductive [[cough]] which resolves within days. | * A flulike illness with [[fever]], [[chills]], [[myalgia]], [[headache]], and a nonproductive [[cough]] which resolves within days. | ||
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Symptoms
Blastomycosis can present in one of the following ways:
- A flulike illness with fever, chills, myalgia, headache, and a nonproductive cough which resolves within days.
- An acute illness resembling bacterial pneumonia, with symptoms of high fever, chills, a productive cough, and pleuritic chest pain.
- A chronic illness that mimics tuberculosis or lung cancer, with symptoms of low-grade fever, a productive cough, night sweats, and weight loss.
- A fast, progressive, and severe disease that manifests as ARDS, with fever, shortness of breath, tachypnea, hypoxemia, and diffuse pulmonary infiltrates.
- Skin lesions, usually asymptomatic, appear as ulcerated lesions with small pustules at the margins
- Bone lytic lesions can cause bone or joint pain.
- Prostatitis may be asymptomatic or may cause pain on urinating.
- Laryngeal involvement causes hoarseness.