Coccidioides posadasii spherules stimulate macrophages to make cytokines via TLR-2 and Dectin-1. We used formalin-killed spherules and 1,3-β-glucan purified from spherules to stimulate elicited ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 40, No. 6 (Jun., 1927), pp. 629-633 (5 pages) The results obtained indicate that the growth of coccidiodes immitis in liquid mediums liberates a soluble ...

Valley fever has been the focus of new research that describes a promising strategy known as immunosignaturing, which can provide clinicians with an accurate identification of valley fever, a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Several cationic peptides that were isolated from rabbit granulocytes exerted fungicidal activity against arthroconidia of Coccidioides ...

California health officials are warning about a surge in a potentially deadly fungal infection. The state is reporting 6,761 cases of valley fever, also known as coccidioidomycosis, through July this ...

Valley fever or coccidioidomycosis is an initial form of infection that occurs by breathing the microscopic spores of the fungus Coccidioides immitis from the air. The fungus enters the body through ...

Discover the risk of valley fever infection in archaeology; a haunting link to the Coccidioides immitis fungus in California's soil. This past June a federal judge ordered the relocation of thousands ...

The risk of valley fever is likely to increase as the fungus that causes it moves north and east with climate change. (courtesy Morgan Gorris) An infectious disease that impacts major agricultural ...

An infection in the lungs caused by the fungus Coccidioides is known as Pulmonary coccidioidomycosis. If you inhale spores from Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii fungi, you can suffer ...

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