With an increasing geographic footprint, it is important for clinicians to be able to recognize and treat coccidioidomycosis, or valley fever, in susceptible patient populations.

A dry and dusty day in Kern County can carry more than just tumbleweeds. Public health officials said that dust could carry a ...

They can give rise to coccidioidomycosis, which is also known as valley fever. These microscopic organisms are found in desert soil in the southwestern US, Mexico and parts of Central and South ...

Federal funding for Valley fever research can be hard to come by, researchers say, so the organism that causes it remains largely understudied. The illness is currently classified as an “orphan ...

Molds and yeast on human bodies and in the air are becoming increasingly resistant to treatment. Experts say the microbes are fueling the next superbug crisis.

The latest threat: a fungal infection called ‘Valley Fever’ caused by Coccidioides organisms. The fungus lives in the soil and gets in the air. A person becomes infected by breathing in dust ...

A Long Beach company with ties to the Central Valley believes it is on track to develop a Valley Fever vaccine for humans. More than 100 miles away from ...

Yet neither Irvin or Purdie were immunocompromised when they contracted coccidioidomycosis ... s caring for them touches them and gets the organism,” Vyas said. “The caregivers can then ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Stephanie Innes Mar 1, 2015 Mar 1, 2015 Updated Aug 16, 2017 Frozen but alive inside a laboratory at the University of Arizona is a potential vaccine against an insidious, incurable, sometimes ...