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LQCL2510 - CMLE - Fatigue and Cough in a Patient on a TNF-alpha Blocking Agent
Course Description

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:

  1. Review the Technical Considerations.
  2. Click Go to Course to view an overview of the modules in this course.
  3. Click Access to begin the course.
  4. Review the Educational Activity.
  5. Complete and submit the Post Exam.
  6. Submit the course Evaluation to register your credit.

Faculty Disclosures​
The 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 

Course Objectives
Following completion of this activity, you will be able to:
  • 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. 

 
 
 
Summary
Availability:
On-Demand
Credit Offered:
2 CMLE Credits
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