Valley fever: Finding new places for an old disease: Coccidioides immitis found in Washington state soil associated with recent human infection

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2015, Pages e1-e3

  Litvintseva, Anastasia P ^a   Marsden Haug, Nicola ^b   Hurst, Steven ^a   Hill, Heather ^c   Gade, Lalitha ^a   Driebe, Elizabeth M ^d   Ralston, Cindy ^c   Roe, Chandler ^d   Barker, Bridget M ^d   Goldoft, Marcia ^b   Keim, Paul ^d   Wohrle, Ron ^b   Thompson, George R ^e   Engelthaler, David M ^d   Brandt, Mary E ^a   Chiller, Tom ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c Benton Franklin Health District   (United States)

^d TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coccidioides; Soil detection; Valley fever; WGS typing

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2;

ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE; ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KNEE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS; VALLEY FEVER; WASHINGTON; WOUND INFECTION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COCCIDIOIDES; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84979859632     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu681     Document Type: Article

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