Learn more about coccidioides, the fungus responsible for valley fever, and what researchers are doing to monitor and track ...

The culprit: microscopic fungal spores that live in and on human bodies and in the dirt and air. Torrence ... when he inhaled Coccidioides spores in 2012. The infection soon spread to his brain ...

Serologic tests for Coccidioides spp ... Adalimumab treatment had been stopped for fear that opportunistic infections were developing, and the patient had been subsequently treated with broad ...

In particular, they can promote the incidence and spread of a range of infections ... borne infectious agents such as the fungi Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii which thrive ...

California had the highest number of Valley fever cases ever reported in 2024, according to the state Department of Public ...

“I cannot think of any other infection that is so closely entwined with climate change,” said Rasha Kuran, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of California at Los Angeles who ...