Published in Health and Medicine Week, November 22nd, 2004
"Human pythiosis is an emerging disease in the tropical,
subtropical, and temperate regions of the world. It is caused by
the straminipilan, fungus-like, aquatic organism Pythium
insidiosum. Pythiosis occurs in localized as well as systemic or
vascular forms. Most patients with arterial pythiosis usually
have underlying hematologic disorders such as thalassemia and
aplastic anemia/paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
syndrome. Vascular pythiosis is characterized by ascending blood
vessel infections and thrombosis of the major arteries... Want
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