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blastomycin

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blastomycin
a sterile broth filtrate from cultures of Blastomyces dermatitidis, used intradermally as a diagnostic test for blastomycosis but results in dogs are unreliable as the test may be negative in advanced cases and there can be cross-reaction with Histoplasma spp.


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Because of poor sensitivity and specificity, the skin test antigen blastomycin is not available, and serologic tests also show poor specificity (14).
Apparent diminution of the blastomycin skin test: Follow-up of an epidemic of blastomycosis.
 
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