Coccidioidomycosis in selected immunosuppressed hosts
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Coccidioidomycosis.
Coccidioides immitis and C posadasii are pathogenic dimorphic fungi responsible for causing coccidioidomycosis in the Southwestern United States and Central and South America. Antifungal therapy is beneficial and entails careful periodic assessment with therapies ranging from none or short courses of therapy to prolonged antifungal therapy. Factors that influence the decision to treat are the d...
متن کاملCoccidioidomycosis in Phoenix, Arizona.
Interest in the Incidence of coccidioidomycosis throughout the desert areas of the western slopes of the Rockies and the southwestern desert country has been accelerated by studies made at the airbases and by the many new endemic foci which have been discovered during the past three years. The purpose of this study is to attempt to evaluate the Importance of this infection in the civilian popul...
متن کاملVirulence Is Positively Selected by Transmission Success between Mammalian Hosts
Virulence, defined as damage to the host, is a trait of pathogens that evolutionary theory suggests benefits the pathogen in the "struggle for existence". Pathogens employ virulence mechanisms that contribute to disease. Central to the evolution of virulence of the infectious agents causing an array of bacterial disease is the evolutionary acquisition of type III secretion, a macromolecular com...
متن کاملCoccidioidomycosis in elderly persons.
BACKGROUND Coccidioidomycosis is a fungal infection acquired via inhalation of airborne fungal arthrospores of Coccidioides species in regions of endemicity in the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. In recent years, the incidence of coccidioidomycosis has increased in areas of endemicity, and previous studies have found the highest incidence of coccidioidal infection...
متن کاملDisseminated Coccidioidomycosis
Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis To the Editor: Coccidioidomy-cosis, an infection caused by the dimorphic fungus Coccidioides immi-tis, is endemic in the southwestern United States, parts of Mexico, and Central and South America (1). Patients with C. immitis infection may have chronic pneumonia, fungemia, and extrapulmonary dissemination to skin, bones, meninges, and other body sites. The clinic...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medical Mycology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1369-3786,1460-2709
DOI: 10.1093/mmy/myy019