Coccidioidomycosis is a human fungal disease cause by inhalation of aerosol spores
produced by Coccidioides posadasii or Coccidioides immitis. This disease is a common …

Coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever) is a fungal disease caused by the inhalation of
Coccidioides posadasii or C. immitis. This neglected disease occurs in the desert areas of …

Developing an effective and safe recombinant vaccine requires microbe-specific antigens
combined with an adjuvant/delivery system to strengthen protective immunity. In this study …

Clinical and animal studies of coccidioidomycosis have demonstrated that activated CD4+ T
lymphocytes are essential for protection against this fungal respiratory disease. We …

Valley fever (coccidioidomycosis) is a disease caused by inhalation of spores from the soil-
dwelling Coccidioides fungal species. The disease is endemic to semiarid areas in the …

Coccidioidomycosis is a fungal infection caused by Coccidioides posadasii and
Coccidioides immitis. It is estimated that 150,000 new infections occur in the United States …

Vaccines have been hailed as one of the greatest achievements in the public health during
the past century. The global eradication of Smallpox virus in humans and Rinderpest virus in …

Coccidioides is the causative agent of a potentially life-threatening respiratory disease of
humans. A feature of this mycosis is that pH measurements of the microenvironment of …

Coccidioides species are fungal pathogens that can cause a widely varied clinical
manifestation from mild pulmonary symptom to disseminated, life-threatening disease. We …

ABSTRACT Interleukin-17A (IL-17A)-producing CD4+ T helper (Th17) cells have been
shown to be essential for defense against pulmonary infection with Coccidioides species …