Acquisition of coccidioidomycosis at necropsy by inhalation of coccidioidal endospores

Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 1992 Aug;15(6):527-30. doi: 10.1016/0732-8893(92)90103-z.

Abstract

Coccidioidomycosis is accepted as being noncontagious because the infectious arthroconidial form of Coccidioides immitis is not produced in humans and other mammalian hosts. However, disseminated coccidioidomycosis developed in a veterinarian who autopsied a horse with disseminated disease but without draining lesions or productive cough. We postulate transmission occurred by inhalation of tissue-phase endospores aerosolized in the course of dissection.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Amphotericin B / therapeutic use
  • Animals
  • Autopsy / veterinary*
  • Coccidioides / isolation & purification
  • Coccidioidomycosis / drug therapy
  • Coccidioidomycosis / transmission*
  • Coccidioidomycosis / veterinary
  • Horse Diseases / transmission
  • Horses
  • Humans
  • Lung Diseases, Fungal / drug therapy
  • Lung Diseases, Fungal / etiology
  • Male
  • Meningitis, Fungal / drug therapy
  • Occupational Diseases / drug therapy
  • Occupational Diseases / etiology*
  • Spores, Fungal
  • Veterinary Medicine*

Substances

  • Amphotericin B