The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 40, No. 6 (Jun., 1927), pp. 629-633 (5 pages) The results obtained indicate that the growth of coccidiodes immitis in liquid mediums liberates a soluble ...

An illustration of the fungus Coccidioides immitis. An outbreak of Valley fever among attendees and workers at an outdoor music festival in California’s Central Valley highlights the fungal ...

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 ...

Valley fever has been the focus of new research that describes a promising strategy known as immunosignaturing, which can provide clinicians with an accurate identification of valley fever, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The risk of valley fever is likely to increase as the fungus that causes it moves north and east with climate change. (courtesy Morgan Gorris) An infectious disease that impacts major agricultural ...

Valley fever or coccidioidomycosis is an initial form of infection that occurs by breathing the microscopic spores of the fungus Coccidioides immitis from the air. The fungus enters the body through ...

Every year, there are about 150,000 cases of a disease whose impact in the deserts of the American Southwest "is equal to the impact of polio... before the vaccine," John Galgiani, an ...

Discover the risk of valley fever infection in archaeology; a haunting link to the Coccidioides immitis fungus in California's soil. This past June a federal judge ordered the relocation of thousands ...