Extractions: (advertisement) Synonyms, Key Words, and Related Terms: Valley fever, San Joaquin Valley fever, Coccidioides immitis, C immitis, arthroconidia, primary cutaneous coccidioidomycosis, respiratory infection, coccidioidal pneumonia, coccidioidal meningitis Background: In 1892, Alejandro Posada first defined coccidioidomycosis as a distinct disease. Coccidioidomycosis is caused by Coccidioides immitis, a dimorphic soil fungus native to the San Joaquin Valley of California, southern portions of Arizona, northern portions of Mexico, and scattered areas in Central America and South America. C immitis propagates both as a saprophyte and as a parasite. In soil, it grows as a mold with branching septate hyphae. When the soil is disturbed, the hyphae fragment, which forms extremely hardy structures called arthroconidia, can become airborne. If inhaled by animals or humans, the arthroconidia can reach the pulmonary alveoli and transform into thick-walled multinucleate spherules, which form septa and produce hundreds to thousands of uninucleate endospores. Each endospore is capable of producing new spherules or mycelia. Pathophysiology: Almost all C immitis infections result from the inhalation of arthroconidia. Infection may be locally controlled, or it may spread within the lungs or via the bloodstream. In rare occurrences, an inoculation of
Coccidioidomycosis Synonyms. san joaquin valley fever, Valley fever Definition. Coccidioidomycosisis the infection caused by the dimorphic fungus Coccidioides immitis. http://www.doctorfungus.org/mycoses/human/cocci/coccidioidomycosis.htm
USA Today-Health Library Definition Also known as san joaquin valley fever or Valley Fever, Coccidioidomycosisis an infectious illness caused by breathing in spores from the fungus http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/147/main.html
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Extractions: All Press Releases for February 5, 2004 MycoLogics, Inc. Moves Closer towards the Discovery of a San Joaquin Valley Fever Vaccine (Coccidioidomycosis) MycoLogics, Inc. today announced award of a Phase I SBIR grant by the Department of Health and Human Services to derive a novel vaccine against the emerging disease San Joaquin Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis). Denver, CO (PRWEB) February 5, 2004MycoLogics, Inc., an innovative biotechnology company specializing in the development of therapeutic and prophylactic vaccines against human fungal and parasitic pathogens, today announced award of a Phase I SBIR grant by the Department of Health and Human Services to derive a novel vaccine against the emerging disease San Joaquin Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis). San Joaquin Valley Fever is a fungal disease caused by Coccidioides immitis, endemic in portions of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, where more than five million people are residing in these at-risk regions. At least 100,000 new cases of San Joaquin Valley Fever are reported per year. An acute respiratory infection occurs between seven days to three weeks after exposure to airborne spores that have been inhaled following the turning of soil where the dormant C. immitis spores lie. In a significant number of cases chronic pulmonary conditions or dissemination to the meninges, bones, and joints may result, leading to acute life-threatening disease. A variety of approaches have been used to prevent transmission, including soil treatments, but only a vaccine can completely eliminate this infectious disease.
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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
Extractions: This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor. 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.
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Extractions: "Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there also is love of humanity."Hippocrates Lysine for Herpes Infections Dear Dr. SerVaas: Some years ago, I read in the Post about lysine helping relieve and cure shingles. Could you tell me about that treatment? H. E. Collingridge e-mail Since the mid-1980s, we have written about research on using lysine to treat and prevent cold sores caused by the herpes simplex virus. We have also published letters from Post readers who report that this inexpensive amino acid helps reduce symptoms of shingles (herpes zoster) and chronic fatigue syndrome, conditions linked to other herpesviruses. The late Dr. Richard Griffith was a dedicated lysine researcher at Indiana University who found that an excess of arginine in the diet can lead to unsightly mouth sores because herpesviruses use it to reproduce and grow. "Lysine counteracts the effects of arginine and `starves' viruses into dormancy," Dr. Griffith said.
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Extractions: CONTACT: Stanford University News Service (415) 723-2558 Lecture to explore role of Stanford doctors treating Valley Fever Drs. Stanley C. Deresinski, clinical professor of medicine at Stanford, and Richard Hector, director of biological sciences at Shaman Pharmaceuticals in South San Francisco, will speak. In the early part of the 20th century, physicians were perplexed about the cause of some cases of lung infection that occurred in people living in the San Joaquin Valley. Then, in 1929, Harold Chope, a Stanford medical student working in a medical school laboratory, accidentally inhaled some fungus spores kept in the lab. His subsequent illness - from which he recovered in a couple of weeks - enabled Stanford faculty physicians to understand that inhaling the spores could cause lung disease. Doctors also recognized the similarity of his case to those in the Valley. In the next decade, Stanford researchers played a key role in identifying locales where the fungus is found in the soil. The geographic distribution of the disease was correlated with the geographic distribution of the fungus spores. -kb- 950213Arc5379.html
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Extractions: 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 Four Corners outbreak. Leonard A. Cole
