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Can humans get blastomycosis from dogs?

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Dr. Michael Ein answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

Yes by dog bites: Blastomycosis is usually acquired by inhalation of conidia into the lungs. Primary cutaneous blastomycosis has occurred after accidental innoculation in the lab, at autopsy and after dog bites.

Answered 2/6/2021

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No: Both can acquire this fungal infection from the environment but it is not transmitted from person to person or dog to person.

Answered 12/18/2012

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Blastomycosis: Blastomycosis is not normally transmitted from dogs to humans with the rare exception being if the an infected dog bites a person. Usually if a person and the person's dog both have Blastomycosis infection it is because they were both exposed to the same contaminating agent (like soil or rotting leaves/ compost).

Answered 2/8/2021

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