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Coccidioides
Sign in to saveCoccidioides is a genus of dimorphic ascomycetes in the family Onygenaceae. Member species are the cause of coccidioidomycosis, also known as San Joaquin Valley fever, an infectious fungal disease largely confined to the Western Hemisphere and endemic in the Southwestern United States. The host acquires the disease by respiratory inhalation of spores disseminated in their natural habitat. The causative agents of coccidioidomycosis are Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii. Both C. immitis and C. posadasii are indistinguishable during laboratory testing and commonly referred
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- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassEurotiomycetes
- OrderOnygenales
- FamilyOnygenaceae
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Research
2,882 papers- Coccidioides ecology and genomics.Medical mycology · 2019
- Host Response to Coccidioides Infection: Fungal Immunity.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2020
- Vaccines against Coccidioides.The Korean journal of internal medicine · 2013
- The Rise of Coccidioides: Forces Against the Dust Devil Unleashed.Frontiers in immunology · 2019
- Coccidioides immitis and posadasii; A review of their biology, genomics, pathogenesis, and host immunity.Virulence · 2018
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Coccidioides is a genus of dimorphic ascomycetes in the family Onygenaceae. Member species are the cause of coccidioidomycosis, also known as San Joaquin Valley fever, an infectious fungal disease largely confined to the Western Hemisphere and endemic in the Southwestern United States. The host acquires the disease by respiratory inhalation of spores disseminated in their natural habitat. The causative agents of coccidioidomycosis are Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii. Both C. immitis and C. posadasii are indistinguishable during laboratory testing and commonly referred in literature as Coccidioides.
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