Characterizing the Soil Microbial Community Associated with the Fungal Pathogen Coccidioides immitis [PDF]
Journal of FungiCoccidioidomycosis is a fungal disease affecting humans and other mammals caused by environmental pathogens of the genus Coccidioides. Human exposure to the pathogen occurs via inhalation of spores aerosolized from soil.
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Sertraline demonstrates fungicidal activity in vitro for Coccidioides immitis [PDF]
Mycology, 2016 Coccidioidomycosis causes substantial morbidity in endemic areas. Disseminated coccidioidomycosis is an AIDS defining condition and treatment often requires lifelong antifungal therapy.
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Valley Fever on the Rise—Searching for Microbial Antagonists to the Fungal Pathogen Coccidioides immitis [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2019 The incidence of coccidioidomycosis, also known as Valley Fever, is increasing in the Southwestern United States and Mexico. Despite considerable efforts, a vaccine to protect humans from this disease is not forthcoming.
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Mitochondrial genomes of the human pathogens Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii. [PDF]
G3 (Bethesda), 2021 Fungal mitochondrial genomes encode genes involved in crucial cellular processes, such as oxidative phosphorylation and mitochondrial translation, and the molecule has been used as a molecular marker for population genetics studies.
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Serological Evidence of Increased Coccidioides immitis Infections in Western Canada in 1996 [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1998 OBJECTIVE: To investigate the epidemiology of Coccidioides immitis infection in persons returning to western Canada from C immitis endemic zones in southwestern United States.
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Improved Reference Genome Sequence of Coccidioides immitis Strain WA_211, Isolated in Washington State. [PDF]
Microbiol Resour Announc, 2019 Coccidioides fungi are widely distributed in the American continents, with an expanding western range documented by a recently discovered cryptic population of Coccidioides immitis in Washington State.
Teixeira MM, Barker BM, Stajich JE.
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Viability and molecular authentication of Coccidioides immitis strains from culture collection of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Viabilidade e autenticação molecular de cepas de Coccidioides immitis da coleção de culturas do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil [PDF]
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2006 Twenty Coccidioides immitis strains were evaluated. Only 5 of the 20 strains kept under mineral oil maintained their viability while all 5 subcultures preserved in water remained viable and none of the 13 subcultures kept in soil were viable.
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Coccidioides immitis Cervical Lymphadenitis Complicated by Esophageal Fistula [PDF]
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2016 Coccidioidomycosis (valley fever) is caused by the dimorphic fungi Coccidioides immitis or Coccidioides posadasii. Most infections are asymptomatic or result in self-limited pneumonia; extrapulmonary dissemination via either hematogenous or lymphatic ...
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Coccidioides immitis septic knee arthritis [PDF]
BMJ Case Reports, 2018 A 78-year-old man developed right knee pain and swelling without other systemic symptoms. He had travelled frequently to the Central Valley of California. He was diagnosed with coccidioidomycosis based on joint fluid culture. Coccidioidal complement fixation antibody titres were extremely elevated.
Weisenberg SA.
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Assessing the Application of a Genomic Network Analysis in Population Ecology: Inferring Patterns of Dispersal and Geographic Structure in the Emerging Pathogen, <i>Coccidioides</i>. [PDF]
Ecol EvolMachine learning has improved upon traditional methods of identifying population structure and is more efficient at handling large, complex datasets. We demonstrate the applicability of a machine learning method to identify hierarchical population structure in an emerging pathogen, Coccidioides spp., the causative agent of Valley fever.
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