The weather helps drive the spread of an often-misdiagnosed infection, which kills as many as 1,000 people per year. Valley ...

An increase in seasonal agricultural work and the end of the school year in the San Joaquin Valley are expected to mean more ...

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.

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 ...

Reported coccidioidomycosis cases in the United States have risen considerably since 1998, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The findings were published ...

Valley fever, or coccidioidomycosis, is an infection caused by a fungus called coccidioides. It's also known as San Joaquin Valley fever or desert rheumatism. Valley fever is the first stage of this ...

We describe a case of life-threatening disseminated coccidioidomycosis in a previously healthy child. Like most patients with disseminated coccidioidomycosis, this child had no genomic evidence of any ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Infectious Diseases Society of America has updated its clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and ...

An infection in the lungs caused by the fungus Coccidioides is known as Pulmonary coccidioidomycosis. If you inhale spores from Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii fungi, you can suffer ...

There has been a sharp increase in the annual number of coccidioidomycosis cases reported in California, researchers report in an article published in the August 11 issue of the Centers for Disease ...

Background. A 50-year-old man presented with a 2–3 month history of left lower quadrant abdominal pain, right periorbital headache, blurry vision, tinnitus, polydipsia, right elbow pain, and a 32 kg ...

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 ...