Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) is a disease caused by species of Coccidioides. The
disease is endemic to arid regions of the Southwestern US and while most common in CA …

Coccidioidomycosis is an emerging infection in Washington State. The epidemiology of the
disease in Washington is poorly understood at present; underrecognition and …

Antigen detection has been reported to be a promising method for rapid diagnosis of
coccidioidomycosis in humans. Coccidioides antigen detection has not been previously …

Coccidioidomycosis is an endemic fungal infection whose incidence and impact have been
increasing in the southwestern United States. Advances in understanding its epidemiology …

Coccidioidomycosis is an infection caused by inhalation of arthroconidia of dimorphic fungi
of the genus Coccidioides. This genus has recently been divided on the basis of genomic …

Reports of coccidioidomycosis are on the rise in the southwestern US. However, the ecology
of the pathogen, Coccidioides, remains obscure and there is limited knowledge of the …

Abstract Coccidioidomycosis ('Valley Fever'), caused by the inhalation of the fungus
Coccidioides, remains a recalcitrant health problem in large parts of California. The …

Coccidioides immitis in soil in Washington State (1). There, we used a systematic sampling
approach, Coccidioides-specific reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR), amplicon …

The soil-dwelling fungus Coccidioides is the causative agents of coccidioidomycosis, also
known as San Joaquin Valley Fever or Valley Fever [1, 2]. Coccidioides is transmitted to …

Coccidioidomycosis is an endemic mycosis of the Southwestern United States, Northern
Mexico, and parts of Central and South America that is acquired typically by inhalation of …