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Extractions: A systemic mycosis caused by of dust particles containing arthroconidia of Coccidioides immitis, a dimorphic fungus that thrives in the lower Sonoran Desert ecozone of the Western hemisphere, including Arizona, New Mexico, west Texas, parts of central America, Argentina, northwest Mexico, and the San Joaquin valley in California. It may be benign, severe, or fatal. Primary coccidioidomycosis is an acute, self-limiting disease involving only the respiratory organs, while progressive coccidioidomycosis is a chronic, diffuse, granulomatous disease that may involve almost any part of the body. No documented cases of animal-to-human or human-to-human transmission have occurred.
Valleyfeversurvivor.com After an outbreak in the 1930s in the San Joaquin Valley of California, this diseasewas given its nickname san joaquin valley fever, often shortened http://www.valleyfeversurvivor.com/history.html
Extractions: The Endemic Area Maps with Valley Fever History The map below shows areas of the United States in red where mass testing revealed coccidioidomycosis as an endemic disease. It's important to note that A) Two thirds of all VF cases are in Arizona, with Phoenix and Tucson as the two most affected cities E) This mass testing has not been repeated for nearly half a century. As the southwest's expansion and population increases, migratory patterns may create communities where the disease itself is endemic, but far outside the endemic areas for the growth of Coccidioides sp. The next map shows areas the U.S. Geological Survey has identified as endemic to C. immitis fungus. Notice the green X at the Dinosaur National Monument site in Utah, far to the north of previously established endemic areas. All ten of the workers at a DNM archeological site on June 19, 2001 became ill with Valley Fever. The exact location of cocci's growth could not be pinpointed for this particular outbreak, but it is suspected to grow near the X.
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Extractions: Skip navigation Other encyclopedia topics: A-Ag Ah-Ap Aq-Az B-Bk ... Z Contents of this page: Coccidioidomycosis - chest X-ray Tuberculosis, advanced - chest X-rays Fungus Alternative names Return to top San Joaquin Valley Fever; Desert Rheumatism Definition Return to top A disease caused by breathing in a fungus found in the soil in certain parts of the southwestern U.S., Mexico, and Central and South America that can cause a lung ( chronic pulmonary) condition. Causes, incidence, and risk factors Return to top The infection is caused by breathing in the spores of a fungus found in desert regions such as Arizona or California's San Joaquin Valley. The disease can have an acute chronic , or disseminated form. The chronic form usually develops after a latent period of months to years following an initial benign infection which may go undiagnosed. Lung abscesses may form and may rupture into the pleural spaces causing empyema (pus in the pleural space) or bronchopleural fistula. Scarring (fibrosis) and cavities may gradually form in the upper lungs as the chronic form of coccidioidomycosis slowly progresses over months to years. Still, the majority of pulmonary coccidioidomycosis infections do not become chronic. In fact, the majority of infections cause no symptoms and are only recognized by a positive
Extractions: MDAdvice.com Home Health Library Pediatric Symptoms and Illnesses Valley fever is an infection caused by a fungus whose spores are found in soil. Valley fever is not contagious from person to person. The upper respiratory tract (including the nose, throat, sinuses, and trachea) and the lymph glands are involved. Appropriate health care includes: self-care after diagnosis; physician's monitoring of general condition and medications; hospitalization (severe cases only). The infection is usually so mild that it produces no symptoms. In a few cases your child's symptoms may be quite severe. They include cough; sore throat; chills and fever; headache; muscle aches; shortness of breath; skin rash; general ill feeling; depression; sweating at night; weight loss; stiff neck (sometimes).
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Dorlands Medical Dictionary nodosum (bumps). Called also desert or valley fever, San Joaquin orsan joaquin valley fever, and desert rheumatism. progressive http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszS
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Extractions: Causes, incidence, and risk factors: The infection is caused by breathing in the spores of a fungus found in desert regions such as Arizona or California's San Joaquin Valley. The disease can have an acute chronic , or disseminated form. The chronic form usually develops after a latent period of months to years following an initial benign infection which may go undiagnosed. Lung abscesses may form and may rupture into the pleural spaces causing empyema (pus in the pleural space) or bronchopleural fistula. Scarring (fibrosis) and cavities may gradually form in the upper lungs as the chronic form of coccidioidomycosis slowly progresses over months to years. Still, the majority of pulmonary coccidioidomycosis infections do not become chronic. In fact, the majority of infections cause no symptoms and are only recognized by a positive coccidioidin skin test . Dark skinned people and people with a weak immune system are more susceptible to infection and more likely to form chronic or disseminated (spreading to other organs) forms of the disease.
Emerging Diseases In Southern Sea Otters Before our study, coccidioidomycosis, or san joaquin valley fever, hadbeen described in a sea otter only once, in 1976 (Cornell et al. http://biology.usgs.gov/s t/SNT/noframe/ca165.htm
PH Letter 4/94 COCCIDIODOMYCOSIS SAN JOAQUIN VAL FEVER, NON-TB LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES. PUBLIC HEALTH LETTER.April 1994 Vol. 16, No 3. COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS (san joaquin valley fever). http://www.lapublichealth.org/acd/news/phl94/acdn1603.htm
Extractions: Vol. 16, No 3 COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS (SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY FEVER) Coccidioides immitis is a dimorphic fungus that is part of the microbial population of the soil in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It flourishes primarily in areas that correspond to the Lower Sonoran Life Zone. This is characterized by arid to semi-arid climate, hot summers, few winter freezes, low altitude, and alkaline soil. The plant life consists of creosote bushes, mesquites, cacti, yucca, and agave. Animals include the pocket mouse, kangaroo rat, and long-eared desert fox. The fungus exists in the first few inches of topsoil in the mycelial phase. As it matures, alternate cells along a hypha become barrel shaped. These structures, called arthroconidia, are easily detached and dispersed into the air where they can then settle at a new site in soil or be inhaled by an animal host. When inhaled, the spores swell, become spherical, develop a thick wall, and reproduce by forming spherical internal spores, termed endospores. A single spherule may develop as many as 800 endospores; when the spherule ruptures, the endospores are released and each in turn can develop into a new spherule. Most of the persons experiencing infection with "cocci" are asymptomatic, or develop an illness indistinguishable from ordinary upper respiratory infections. The incubation period is 1-4 weeks; the infection is not directly transmitted from man or animal to man. Of those persons who develop significant symptoms, their illness may resemble a lower respiratory infection and/or systemic illness with cough, sputum production, chest pain, malaise, fever, chills, night sweats, anorexia, and arthralgia. Two skin manifestations, erythema nodosum or erythema mulforme may occur. Less than one percent of infected persons develop disseminated (extrapulmonary) disease that may occur anywhere in the body, but lesions are most frequent in bone, soft tissue, lymph nodes, skin, and the meninges.
ILDS: ICD-10 - By Code [B379 - B889] B379 Moniliasis (NOS), B380 Fever San Joaquin valley, B380 Fever valley, B380san joaquin valley fever, B380 Valley fever, B383 Coccidioidomycosis of skin, http://www.ilds.org/icd10/bycode/B-02.html
Extractions: Return to Alphabetical listing... ICD Code: Disorder Moniliasis (NOS) Fever San Joaquin valley Fever valley San Joaquin valley fever Valley fever Coccidioidomycosis of skin Cutaneous coccidioidomycosis Coccidioidomycosis (NOS) American histoplasmosis (NOS) Histoplasmosis capsulati (NOS) Histoplasmosis American (NOS) Darling's disease Disease Darling's African histoplasmosis Histoplasmosis African Histoplasmosis duboisii Histoplasmosis (NOS) Blastomycosis skin Cutaneous blastomycosis Blastomycosis North American Disease Gilchrist's Gilchrist's disease North American blastomycosis Blastomycosis (NOS) Cutaneous paracoccidioidomycosis Paracoccidioidomycosis of skin Blastomycosis Brazilian (NOS) South American blastomycosis Paracoccidioidomycosis (NOS) Lutz Splendore Almeida disease Disease Lutz Splendore Almeida Blastomycosis South American Brazilian blastomycosis (NOS) Sporotrichosis of skin Verrucous dermatitis Dermatitis verrucous Chromoblastomycosis of skin Chromomycosis of skin Cutaneous chromomycosis Pheohyphomycosis of skin Cutaneous pheohyphomycosis Chromoblastomycosis (NOS) Aspergillosis of skin Cryptococcosis of skin Cutaneous cryptococcosis Cutaneous torulosis Blastomycosis European Torulosis (NOS) Zygomycosis rhinocerebral Acute rhinocerebral zygomycosis Mucormycosis rhinocerebral Rhinocerebral mucormycosis Rhinocerebral mucormycosis acute Rhinocerebral zygomycosis Rhinocerebral zygomycosis acute
Extractions: For the rest of my pages on fungi, please click http://TomVolkFungi.net Coccidioides immitis (kok-sid-ee-OID-eez IMM-ih-tiss) is the cause of a nasty fungal disease called coccidioidomycosis (kok-sid-ee-oid-oh-my-KOH-sis). Like the other true-pathogenic, systemic human fungal diseases histoplasmosis blastomycosis , and paracoccidioidomycosis, Coccidioidomycosis starts out as a lung disease caused by inhalation of the conidia, shown to the left. Most often the disease causes mild flu-like symptoms, but usually is resolved in the lungs. This fungus is a dimorphic pathogen, which means it can change from the room-temperature hyphal form at to the body-temperature spherule form (shown to the right) containing endospores. These endospores can be transported by the bloodstream to other parts of the body, particularly to the brain and central nervous system, where they can germinate and grow to cause even more severe disease. The dimorphism helps the fungus to evade the immune system by the changing of the surface antigens of the fungus. The disease often begins as a benign, inapparent or mildly severe upper respiratory infection that usually resolves rapidly. Recovery from mild forms of the disease usually results in lifelong immunity to reinfection. However, if there are enough spores inhaled, or if the person's immune system is compromised in some way, the disease can spread to other parts of the body, Rarely the disease is an acute or chronic severe disseminating fatal mycosis. If infection is established, the disease may progress as a chronic pulmonary condition or as a systemic disease involving the meninges (lining of the brain), bones, joints, and subcutaneous and cutaneous tissues. Such involvement is characterized by the formation of burrowing abscesses. Although the symptoms of the disease are quite variable, but often the patient has an allergic reaction to the circulating fungus, producing reddening of the skin known as "desert bumps," shown to the left.
Trapline By 1954, the army added anthrax, san joaquin valley fever (a hardy sporeformingfungus found in California's San Joaquin Valley), and Venezuelan equine http://home.attbi.com/~kknowlto/trapline.htm
Extractions: DUGWAY TRAP LINE The RATS BBS SysOp gathering data from a trap line station. Trying to keep tabs on the spread of biologicals released at Dugway the army maintained a series of data gathering stations at the perimeter of the post known as the trap line. The indigenous animal population and local weather patterns meandered across the test grids contaminated with deadly warfare agents at will, taking with them a legacy of disease to the surrounding desert. Kenneth E. Knowlton, Sig C Met DPG 1959-61 The Army considers its test bacteria harmless, though no one knows the extent of their effects. Secrecy about the biological defense program has contributed to a spate of nasty rumors. The most recent, involves the outbreak of a mysterious disease in the Southwest that has taken perhaps 30 lives since May. Hanta viruses the apparent cause of the disease, have been studied by military researchers for years, and speculation has arisen that the viruses may have been connected to the outbreak. Leonard A. Cole, professor of political science at Rutgers in Newark, is author of "Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas."
LANDLINE MAGAZINE - October 2001 Valley Fever (or san joaquin valley fever) is a disease of the lungs that is commonin the southwestern United States (California, Arizona, West Texas, New http://www.landlinemag.com/Archives/2001/Oct2001/Your Health/valley_fever.html
Extractions: YOUR HEALTH Common reported symptoms Valley Fever still a mystery An estimated 50,000 to 100,000 persons develop symptoms of Valley Fever each year in the United States, with 35,000 new infections per year in California alone. In Arizona, the incidence of reported cases was 15 per 100,000 in 1995. Who gets Valley Fever? Most cases of Valley Fever are very mild. Reportedly, more than 60 percent of infected people have either no symptoms or experience flu-like symptoms and never seek medical attention. Of those patients seeking medical care, the most common symptoms are fatigue, cough, chest pain, fever, rash, headache and joint aches. The changes in bones and joints due to Valley Fever infection can be seen on X-rays and in CT-scans of the affected body part. Some people develop painful red bumps on their shins or elsewhere that gradually turn brown. Only 1 to 2 percent develop a disease that spreads (disseminates) to other parts of the body. These symptoms, however, are not unique to Valley Fever and can be caused by other illnesses. Therefore, identifying Valley Fever as the cause of illness requires specific laboratory tests.
American Lung Association Of Santa Clara-San Benito Counties Cocci, otherwise known as valley fever, desert fever, and san joaquin valley fever,is a sickness of degree, meaning that most people catching it do not get http://www.lungsrus.org/cocci.html
Extractions: Cocci, otherwise known as valley fever, desert fever, and San Joaquin Valley fever, is a sickness of degree, meaning that most people catching it do not get sick at all; they don't even know they have the disease. Of those who do get sick, most have flu-like symptoms. Cocci is a fungus disease caused by a tiny form of plant life somewhat like yeast or mildew. The tiny seeds, called spores, are founf in dust and are inhaled into the lungs. But they can spread to other parts of the body too. In rare cases infection may result when the fungus-filled dust settles in a skin scratch. The disease is not spread from human to human. After one bout with cocci, the body develops immunity to a second infection. Small desert animals such as gophers and som domestic animals may be infected by inhaling the spores. They donot spread the infection to human beings. For more facts about asthma please fill out our electronic information request form or visit other American Lung Association web sites by clicking on "Local offices".
National Health Service Corps:Success Stories was not good, with residents having a high incidence of diabetes, high blood pressure,high cholesterol, asthma, and san joaquin valley fever, a respiratory http://nhsc.bhpr.hrsa.gov/success_stories/california.html
Extractions: Success Stories: California NHSC Scholars Build Healthier Community When Drs. Oscar and Marcia Sablan came to Firebaugh, California, courtesy of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Scholarship Program, the rural farming community of about 3,000 had only a semi-retired physician and a public clinic. Now, more than 20 years later, Firebaugh has responsive, accessible private health care for its rural, mainly uninsured residents. It also has a thriving business community, better housing, responsible leadership, and an energetic sports programand the Sablans have helped make it all happen. After serving their commitments to the NHSC, Marcia at the Fresno County Clinic in Firebaugh and Oscar at the San Joaquin Health Center in rural Fresno County, the Sablans decided to set up a private practice in Firebaugh. At the time, the majority of patients were migratory farmworkers who did not have health insurance. The populations general health status was not good, with residents having a high incidence of diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma, and San Joaquin Valley Fever, a respiratory fungal infection endemic to the entire San Joaquin Valley area. Over the years, the town and the practice have grown. Firebaughs population, which demographically breaks out to 86 percent Hispanic, 12 percent Caucasian, and 3 percent other, has doubled and has become less migrantin part because of affordable housing built with grants secured by the city of Firebaugh during Marcia Sablans tenure as mayor.
