Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Coccidioidomycosis: A Reemerging Infectious Disease

Theo N. Kirkland and Joshua Fierer

Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine (T.N. Kirkland); Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, California, USA (J. Fierer)

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The most common clinical presentations of coccidioidomycosis in AIDS patients. The group "Other" includes dissemination to the lymph nodes, liver, spleen, and bone marrow. The antibody only group includes patients with serologic evidence of infection but no evident focus of infection. Since these were passively collected cases, a protocol to search for inapparent sites of infection had not been agreed upon (37).

Figure 5. The most common clinical presentations of coccidioidomycosis in AIDS patients. The group "Other" includes dissemination to the lymph nodes, liver, spleen, and bone marrow. The antibody only group includes patients with serologic evidence of infection but no evident focus of infection. Since these were passively collected cases, a protocol to search for inapparent sites of infection had not been agreed upon (37).

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