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The Geographic Distribution of Dimorphic Mycoses in the United States for the Modern Era.

Published in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

The dimorphic mycoses (DMs) of the United States-Histoplasma, Coccidioides, and Blastomyces-commonly known as endemic mycoses of North America (in addition to Paracoccidioides) are increasingly being diagnosed outside their historical areas of endemicity. Despite this trend, the maps outlining their geographic distributions have not been updated in...

What You See Is Not What You Get: Germ Cell Tumor Mimicking Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis.

We present the case of a 30-year-old man with no prior medical history who presented to the hospital with a myriad of symptoms such as shortness of breath, generalized weakness, lower limb weakness, and urinary retention. He was recently diagnosed with disseminated coccidioidomycosis by an outside provider on an outpatient basis and started on fluc...

Epidemiology and Pedagogy: Approaches to examining disease dynamics and developing anti-racist teaching practices.

My dissertation integrates theories and methods from pathogen ecology, infectious disease epidemiology and anti-racist pedagogy. For the first part of my dissertation, I focus on two environmentally- mediated, infectious diseases impacting the respiratory system, COVID-19 and coccidioidomycosis. My first chapter reviews key environmental features t...

Coccidioidal Pulmonary Cavitation: A New Age

Coccidioides species are thermally dimorphic fungi found in geographically defined areas of the Western Hemisphere. The primary portal of entry is respiratory, with symptomatic pneumonic diseases as the most common presentation. Subsequent pulmonary complications as well as extrapulmonary metastatic infection may occur, either of which may be the p...

Disseminated Histoplasmosis in Central California Seen in an Immunocompromised Patient.

Histoplasma capsulatum is a dimorphic fungus found in certain parts of North, Central, and South America. Transmission is primarily through airborne inoculation from inhaled fungal microconidia. Histoplasmosis is typically a self-limited mycosis; however, in patients with immunodeficiency, disseminated disease can occur and may lead to high disease...

Disseminated Histoplasmosis in Central California Seen in an Immunocompromised Patient.

Published in Journal of investigative medicine high impact case reports

Histoplasma capsulatum is a dimorphic fungus found in certain parts of North, Central, and South America. Transmission is primarily through airborne inoculation from inhaled fungal microconidia. Histoplasmosis is typically a self-limited mycosis; however, in patients with immunodeficiency, disseminated disease can occur and may lead to high disease...

Asymptomatic Coccidioidal Meningitis Relapse: A Demon in Disguise

Coccidioides spp is a soil-dwelling, dimorphic fungus that causes coccidioidomycosis. It is endemic to the western hemisphere. Although primarily a respiratory disease, it can also cause a myriad of clinical manifestations, from asymptomatic disease to meningitis. In fact, Coccidioides species is probably the most common etiologic agent of long-ter...