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Risk factors and outcomes of culture-proven acute Coccidioides spp. infection in San Diego, California, United States.

Jeffrey D JenksSharon L ReedMartin Hoenigl
Published in: Mycoses (2020)
Coccidioides spp. infection occurs in a variety of hosts with varying underlying risk factors, with the majority in our cohort overall and 86% with disseminated disease lacking traditional risk factors for invasive fungal infection other than ethnicity and/or blood phenotype. Clinicians should be aware of these non-traditional risk factors in patients with coccidioidomycosis infection.
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