RT Book, Section
A1 Marsh, Ketzela J.
A1 Schleiss, Mark R.
A2 Kline, Mark W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182937196
T1 Coccidioidomycosis
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259588594
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182937196
RD 2024/04/24
AB Coccidioidomycosis  is  the  infection  caused  by  the  dimorphic  fungi  Coccidioides  immitis  or  Coccidioides  posadasii.  Although  it  was  initially  believed  that  coccidioidomycosis  was  an  invariably  lethal  infection,  by  the  mid-1930s,  it  was  recognized  that  the  organism  was  in  fact  responsible  for  a  very  common,  acute,  and  generally  self-limited  disease  that  was  known  as  the  San  Joaquin  Valley  fever.  In  regions  where  coccidioidomycosis  is  endemic,  Valley  fever  continues  to  be  an  important  public  health  problem.  In  addition,  coccidioidomycosis  has  emerged  in  recent  years  as  an  important  cause  of  disease  in  immunocompromised  patients,  particularly  those  with  human  immunodeficiency  virus  (HIV)  infection.