Health and safety effects of airborne soil dust in the Americas and beyond

DQ Tong, TE Gill, WA Sprigg, RS Van Pelt… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Risks associated with dust hazards are often underappreciated, a gap between the
knowledge pool and public awareness that can be costly for impacted communities. This …

[HTML][HTML] Dogs (Canis familiaris) as Sentinels for Human Infectious Disease and Application to Canadian Populations: A Systematic Review

NH Bowser, NE Anderson - Veterinary sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
In a world where climate change, vector expansion, human activity, and pathogen dispersal
do not respect boundaries, the human–animal–pathogen interface has become less …

Sex differences in susceptibility to coccidioidomycosis

I McHardy, KL Reagan, JF Sebastian… - Open Forum …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
To assess sex-specific differences in coccidioidomycosis, a retrospective analysis of human
patients, nonhuman primates, and veterinary patients (including the neutered status of the …

Selected clinical features of coccidioidomycosis in dogs

AP Davidson, LF Shubitz, CJ Alcott… - Medical Mycology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Canine coccidioidomycosis, a systemic fungal infection endemic to arid and semiarid
regions of North, Central, and South America, is commonly diagnosed in dogs living in or …

Serum 25‐hydroxyvitamin D concentrations in dogs with coccidioidomycosis and variables associated with extent of clinically evident disease

JA Jaffey, R Kreisler, LF Shubitz… - Journal of Veterinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Clinicopathologic variables predictive of disseminated coccidioidomycosis are
known in humans but have not been explored in dogs. Serum 25‐hydroxyvitamin (OH) D …

The dog as a sentinel and animal model for coccidioidomycosis

AJ Ferguson, GR Thompson, D Bruyette… - Medical …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Coccidioidomycosis is a potentially fatal fungal disease of humans and animals that follows
inhalation of Coccidioides spp. arthroconidia in the environment. The disease in dogs …

Backyard zoonoses: The roles of companion animals and peri-domestic wildlife

A Gamble, XA Olarte-Castillo… - Science Translational …, 2023 - science.org
The spillover of human infectious diseases from animal reservoirs is now well appreciated.
However, societal and climate-related changes are affecting the dynamics of such …

[HTML][HTML] Development of an enzyme immunoassay for detection of antibodies against Coccidioides in dogs and other mammalian species

NA Chow, MD Lindsley, OZ McCotter, D Kangiser… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Coccidioides is a soil-dwelling fungus that causes coccidioidomycosis, a disease also
known as Valley fever, which affects humans and a variety of animal species. Recent …

Novel Presentation of Coccidioidomycosis with Myriad Free-Floating Proteinaceous Spheres in the Pericardial Sac of a Southern Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris nereis)

HS Harris, MD Harris… - The Journal of …, 2024 - meridian.allenpress.com
ABSTRACT A southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) stranded dead in central California,
USA, with a distended pericardial sac containing thousands of free-floating proteinaceous …

Coccidioidomycosis in animals

BM Barker - Emerging and epizootic fungal infections in animals, 2018 - Springer
A broad diversity of animals is susceptible to infection by Coccidioides species. However
severe or disseminated disease in animals other than pet dogs is not commonly reported in …