More than 500,000 Americans could be sickened each year by Valley fever, the disease caused by breathing in the fungus Coccidioides, according to preliminary estimates developed by the Centers for ...

Fungal infections, as is shown in the popular OTT series 'The Last of Us', are now emerging as a new global health crisis. According to reports, a dangerous fungal infection called Coccidioides — or ...

California health officials are warning about a surge in a potentially deadly fungal infection. The state is reporting 6,761 cases of valley fever, also known as coccidioidomycosis, through July this ...

Credit: Getty Images With an increasing geographic footprint, it is important for clinicians to be able to recognize and treat coccidioidomycosis, or valley fever, in susceptible patient populations.

Learn more about coccidioides, the fungus responsible for valley fever, and what researchers are doing to monitor and track it. Dwelling beneath the soil in the American Southwest are coccidioides ...

Valley fever is caused by the fungus Coccidioides, and usually refers to a medical condition in which the fungus enters the lungs. This fungus lives in dust and soil and has been found in southwestern ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. A flesh-eating fungus is expanding its range in the American West – and ...

Of the roughly 150,000 recognized fungal species, and perhaps the several million not yet identified, few cause disease in humans, 1 fewer do so in persons not overtly immunosuppressed, and only a ...

Inadvertent exposure to Coccidioides species by laboratory staff and others as a result of a mishap is not an uncommon cause of infection in clinical microbiology laboratories. These types of ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Twenty-two soil samples from areas endemic for Coccidioides immitis in California were screened for C. immitis. Suspensions prepared from ...