Coccidioides immitis
Concerted Evolution in the Repeats of an Immunomodulating Cell Surface Protein, SOWgp, of the Human Pathogenic Fungi Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii
... U NDERSTANDING the dynamic qualities of ge- nomes that allow pathogens to escape immune response is vital to a deeper knowledge about host- pathogen interactions. We here present an empirical study of the concerted ...
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Use of a recombinant Coccidioides immitis complement fixation antigen chitinase in conventional serological assays
... Diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis is often made on the basis of serological assays employing crude antigens prepared from filtrates or lysates of mycelial or spherule-endospore phases of Coccidioides immitis ...
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Evolution of the Mating Type Locus: Insights Gained from the Dimorphic Primary Fungal Pathogens Histoplasma capsulatum, Coccidioides immitis, and Coccidioides posadasii
... capsulatum, Coccidioides immitis, and Coccidioides posadasii, using genomic analysis, direct sequencing, and ...both Coccidioides species, in accord with population genetic ...
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Rapid in vitro conversion and identification of Coccidioides immitis
... immitis were grown in slide cultures on modified Converse liquid medium in purified agar and incubated at 40 C in a candle jar, all 57 isolates demonstrated inhibition of mycelial growth[r] ...
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Immunological procedure for the rapid and specific identification of Coccidioides immitis cultures
... The tures, we studied 166 coded cultures, the heated coccidioidin contained only antigen comidentities of which were unknown to us, in par- parable to that found active in the tube preci[r] ...
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Immunoaffinity isolation and partial characterization of the Coccidioides immitis antigen detected by the tube precipitin and immunodiffusion tube precipitin tests
... Analysis of separate DEAE peaks 1 and 2 and crude heated mycelial filtrate F171 was performed by using an amino acid analyzer model 6300; Beckman Instruments, Inc., Fullerton, Calif.. an[r] ...
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A case report of Coccidioides posadasii meningoencephalitis in an immunocompetent host
... are Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii [2, ...C. immitis and ...C. immitis being found predominantly in California and ...
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Differences in Host Innate Responses among Coccidioides Isolates in a Murine Model of Pulmonary Coccidioidomycosis
... Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii are soil-dwelling fungi and the causative agents of coccidioidomycosis, a myco- sis endemic to certain semiarid regions in the ...C. immitis ...
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Local Population Structure and Patterns of Western Hemisphere Dispersal for Coccidioides spp , the Fungal Cause of Valley Fever
... species, Coccidioides immitis and ...C. immitis strains were included in the analyses, some evidence of phylogeographic structure was also detected in this species, which has been his- torically ...
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The Quest for a Vaccine against Coccidioidomycosis, A Neglected Disease of the Americas
... Abstract: Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) is a disease caused by inhalation of Coccidioides spp. This neglected disease has substantial public health impact despite its geographic restriction to desert areas of ...
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Safety considerations in handling exoantigen extracts from pathogenic fungi
... Mature mycelial form fungal cultures, including cultures of Blastomyces dermatitidis, Coccidioides immitis, and Histoplasma capsulatum and morphologically similar fungi, were grown on Sa[r] ...
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Analysis of Polymorphic Microsatellite Markers for Typing Penicillium marneffei Isolates
... Microsatellites have successfully been used to type other pathogenic fungi, including Aspergillus fumigatus 3, 27, Coccidioides immitis 19, Saccharomyces cerevisiae 21, and especially Ca[r] ...
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Serological and molecular prevalence of canine vector borne diseases (CVBDs) in Korea
... Blood samples were collected from the cephalic or lat- eral saphenous veins of dogs and were stored in EDTA tubes. Blood samples were tested within 30 min after collection using a commercial ELISA assay kit (SNAP® 4Dx®; ...
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Canine vector borne infections in Mauritius
... Curiously, one of the dogs was negative for the D. immi- tis antigen, but had visible microfilariae on microscopic examination. This may be explained by a false negative serological result (sensitivity of 99.0%- SNAP 4Dx ...
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Serological responses to various Coccidioides antigen preparations in a new enzyme immunoassay
... When these CCA-coated microwells were used to assay serum specimens 3 and 26, which were IDTP positive and IDCF negative, there was a significant IgG signal Table 1.. Inhibition experime[r] ...
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Antigenemia detected in human coccidioidomycosis
... immitis antigenemia was developed; antigenemia was detected in five 56% of nine patients with active coccidioidomycosis and a positive test indicated active or persistent disease... Cocc[r] ...
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Parasitic polymorphism of Coccidioidesspp
... and radiological data; microbiological studies (including isolation of the fungus); fresh examinations, cytological, histopathological and immunological studies. Microscopic laboratory diagnosis of Coccidioidomycosis ...
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Updated canine infection rates for Dirofilaria immitis in areas of Brazil previously identified as having a high incidence of heartworm infected dogs
... Methods: Dogs from 15 locations having previously reported a high prevalence of heartworm infection were included in the survey according to defined criteria, including the absence of treatment with a macrocyclic lactone ...
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Coccidioides posadasii infection alters the expression of pulmonary surfactant proteins (SP)-A and SP-D
... C. immitis (now posadasii) Silveira strain, cultured on 1 % glucose-0.5 % yeast extract agar (GYE), was used for infecting the mice [1]. The arthroconidia were harvested in endotoxin-free 0.15 M saline (Baxter ...
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Molecular characterization of Dirofilaria spp circulating in Portugal
... Dirofilaria immitis is considered the most virulent filarial species in dogs, as the long-lived adult worms reside in the right ventricle and pulmonary artery, leading to pulmonary hypertension, congestive heart ...
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