Cervical, Mediastinal, and Pericardial Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis: The Importance of Source Control. [PDF]
Case Rep Infect DisA 47‐year‐old healthy man developed disseminated coccidioidomycosis involving his mediastinal and cervical lymph nodes that was complicated by pericardial involvement despite continued fluconazole for primary pulmonary infection. Although he subsequently received an aggressive antifungal regimen with voriconazole and liposomal amphotericin B, he did ...
Grant L +4 more
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Primary Cutaneous Coccidioidomycosis Presenting on the Leg of an Immunocompetent Patient: A Case Report. [PDF]
Case Rep Infect DisCoccidioidomycosis is a fungal infection that primarily manifests as an asymptomatic condition caused by inhalation of fungal spores. Less commonly, patients can develop dissemination to extrapulmonary locations such as the skin or primary cutaneous inoculation of the fungus at a site of trauma.
Kaminsky A +5 more
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Frequency and Duration of Diagnostic Delays Associated with Coccidioidomycosis and Risk Factors for Missed Diagnoses, United States [PDF]
Emerging Infectious DiseasesDiagnosis of coccidioidomycosis is challenging and requires a high index of clinical suspicion. We estimated the incidence and duration of, and risk factors associated with, diagnostic delays and missed opportunities in the diagnosis of ...
Desmond D. Barber +6 more
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Coccidioidomycosis-Attributable Death in the United States: An Analysis of Cases Reported on Death Certificates, 2018–2023 [PDF]
Journal of FungiContemporary data on coccidioidomycosis death rates are sparse. Death certificate data for 2018–2023 from the US National Vital Statistics System were evaluated.
Huiqiao Fan +3 more
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Coccidioidomycosis Masquerading as Malignancy: A Case of Mediastinal Mass and Pericardial Effusion in an Immunocompetent Jamaican Male [PDF]
Case Reports in Infectious DiseasesCoccidioidomycosis rarely presents as a lung mass, hypereosinophilia, and disseminated pericarditis with pericardial effusion. Even rarer is a case that presents with the constellation of all these findings.
Samuel B. Governor +8 more
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Choice of Downscaled Climate Product Matters: Projections of Valley Fever Seasonality in a Warming Climate. [PDF]
GeohealthAbstract Downscaled climate projections provide valuable information needed to better understand the impacts of climate change on health outcomes and to inform adaptation and mitigation strategies at local to regional scales. Because downscaled climate products vary in their representations of fine‐scale spatiotemporal patterns, due to of multiple ...
Schollaert CL +7 more
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THE TREATMENT OF COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS [PDF]
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2015 SUMMARYTherapy of coccidioidomycosis continues to evolve. For primary pulmonary disease, antifungal therapy is frequently not required while prolonged courses of antifungals are generally needed for those in whom extrathoracic disseminated has occurred ...
Neil M. AMPEL
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First Reports of Canine Coccidioidomycosis in the Paso del Norte Region, Mexico–USA: A 10‐Case Series [PDF]
Veterinary Medicine and ScienceObjectives Present a series of cases of dogs with coccidioidomycosis residing in Juarez, city in northwest Mexico and part of the binational Mexico–USA metropolitan area ‘Paso del Norte’ which connects with El Paso, TX, and Donna Ana, NM, highlighting ...
Carlos A Rodríguez‐Alarcón +10 more
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Epidemiology of Coccidioidomycosis in the Veterans Health Administration, 2013–2022
Journal of Fungi, 2023 We describe the epidemiology of coccidioidomycosis among a national cohort of Veterans. Using electronic health record data from adults tested for coccidioidomycosis between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2022, we analyzed differences in baseline ...
Cynthia Lucero-Obusan +4 more
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