ABSTRACT
Members of the genus Emmonsia are –lamentous soil saprophytes that have been linked to a pulmonary fungal infection termed adiaspiromycosis in small mammals and occasionally in humans including both immunocompetent and immunocompromised individuals. Emmonsia conidia gain entry into the lung via inhalation, where they develop without replication into a type of spherule termed an adiaspore, with clinical symptoms ranging from cough, dyspnea, low-grade fever, to negligible manifestations. Given their morphologic similarities, Emmonsia can be easily misidenti–ed as Coccidioides, Blastomyces, Histoplasma, or Cryptococcus.
