System mycoses B38-B42; B49

Systemic mycoses, also known as system mycoses, are usually severe systemic infectious diseases with dimorphic fungi, in which the pathogen - usually on its way through the lungs - hematogenically attacks internal organs. More rarely, the infection is caused by inoculation.

The following systemic fungal infections are to be expected in Europe:

• Candidoses
• Mould fungus infections (aspergillus, non-aspergillus(mucorycoses, fusaria), cryptococcosis

Outside Europe, 3 further, mostly endemic, systemic mycoses must be expected:

• Blastomycosis
• Histoplasmosis
• Coccidioidomycosis

Optionally pathogenic (opportunistic) fungi (yeasts and moulds) cause infectious diseases only in patients with immunological disorders (chemotherapy, long-term immunosuppressive therapies, AIDS).

Obligatory pathogenic fungi, also "primarily pathogenic" fungi, cause severe systemic mycosis even in healthy people. These include:

• blastomycosis
• Histoplasmosis
• Coccidioidomycosis

Mushrooms which are not found in Europe.