LabQ 2025 Clinical Laboratory: Microbiology Faculty/Authors
Elizabeth Tremblay, MD, MPH, CIC1 Resident Physician in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Donna Hill, DO, MS, MAEd1 Clinical Fellow in Medical Microbiology
Rama R Yakubu, MD, PhD2 Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine
Paul Bernard, MD, PhD1 Resident Physician in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
David R Peaper, MD, PhD, D(ABMM)1 Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine
1Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven, Connecticut
2University of California San Francisco San Francisco, California
CMLE Credit: 2.0 Estimated Completion Time: 2 hour Format: Online Educational Activity and Post Exam
Instructions
To claim CMLE credit for the exercise, do the following:
Faculty DisclosuresThe faculty have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Technical Considerations
Release Date: 5/31/2025 Review Date:Expiration Date: 12/31/2027
describe the most common mode of transmission for histoplasmosis;
explain the laboratory methods employed in the diagnosis of histoplasmosis;
describe morphological characteristics of Histoplasma capsulatum in the yeast and mold forms; and
identify areas of endemicity within the United States and throughout the world.