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Coccidioidomycosis: flying conidia and severed heads

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2003

FRANK C. ODDS
FRANK C. ODDS
Affiliation:
Aberdeen Fungal Group, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK
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Abstract

Some of the participants at the 2001 world model airplane championship contest in Lost Hills, California, took home more than suntans and souvenirs. One participant from the UK and one from Finland became very ill with a flu-like pulmonary disease. They had been infected with Coccidioides immitis, a fungus endemic to the Californian deserts and a few other similar sites in the New World. Their illness, coccidioidomycosis (also known colloquially and historically as Valley Fever, San Joaquin Valley Fever and Gilchrist's Disease) is a mycosis with a rich and remarkable history.

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Mycologist , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , February 2003 , pp. 37 - 40
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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