Radiographic images may show nothing, cavities or nodules |
Cocci forms spherules filled with endospores in lungs |
Treat local lung infexction with -conazoles |
Clinically looks like pneumonia: cough, fever, arthralgias |
Cocci associated with erythema nodosum |
Transmission: spores in dust |
Cocci spherules larger than RBCs |
Cocci is dimorphic |
Immunocompromised |
Skin and lungs common sites of infection |
Disseminates to bone of immunocompromised |
Earthquakes are risk factor |
Amphotericin for disseminated dz |
Southwestern United states distribution |
Can induce disseminated meningitis in immunocompromised |
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Coccidioidomycosis
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