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