Coccidioides posadasii
Characterization of a Serodiagnostic Complement Fixation Antigen of Coccidioides posadasii Expressed in the Nonpathogenic Fungus Uncinocarpus reesii
... Coccidioides posadasii is a fungal pathogen that grows as a saprobe in the alkaline desert soil of the southwestern United States, as well as in parts of Mexico and Central and South America ...
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A case report of Coccidioides posadasii meningoencephalitis in an immunocompetent host
... are Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii [2, ...C. posadasii are morphologically identical with no known phenotypic differences in ...C. posadasii in Nevada, Arizona, New ...
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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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PCR Assays for Identification of Coccidioides posadasii Based on the Nucleotide Sequence of the Antigen 2/Proline Rich Antigen
... of Coccidioides posadasii DNA were designed and tested in 120 clinical ...C. posadasii (accession number AF013256), or a single silent mutation at position ...
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Population Structure and Genetic Diversity among Isolates of Coccidioides posadasii in Venezuela and Surrounding Regions
... C. posadasii populations, it is possible that shared ancestry among populations is not caused by gene exchange but by incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) across different ...The Coccidioides posadasii ...
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Coccidioides posadasii Contains a Single 1,3-β-Glucan Synthase Gene That Appears To Be Essential for Growth
... C. posadasii that shared similarity to known fungal FKS ...C. posadasii, is a member of the order ...C. posadasii (81 and 80%, respectively) and, among fungi whose genomes have been sequenced, are ...
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Coccidioides posadasii infection alters the expression of pulmonary surfactant proteins (SP)-A and SP-D
... C. posadasii infection versus the unaltered amounts in the lungs of protected mice and binding of collectins to Coccidioidal antigens indicate that pulmonary collectins may be involved in uptake/phagocytosis of ...
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Differences in Host Innate Responses among Coccidioides Isolates in a Murine Model of Pulmonary Coccidioidomycosis
... and Coccidioides posadasii are soil-dwelling fungi and the causative agents of coccidioidomycosis, a myco- sis endemic to certain semiarid regions in the ...C. posadasii strain as well as uninfected ...
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Enhanced Antibody Detection and Diagnosis of Coccidioidomycosis with the MiraVista IgG and IgM Detection Enzyme Immunoassay
... C occidioidomycosis is an endemic mycosis caused by the fungi Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii (1). The disease can range from a subclinical self- resolving illness to a ...
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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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Lethal Co-infection with Coccidiodes immitis/posadasii, MAI, and Pneumocystis jirovecii as a First Presentation of HIV
... with Coccidioides immitis/posadasii, MAI, and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia ...However, Coccidioides was the dominant and disseminated pathogen which most likely led to his ...with ...
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Use of a recombinant Coccidioides immitis complement fixation antigen chitinase in conventional serological assays
... The coccidioidal complement fixation (CF) antigen has been cloned previously, and the fusion protein has been expressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant CF (rCF) antigen was affinity purified by adsorption- ...
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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. posadasii, which are en- demic to specific arid locales throughout the Western Hemisphere, particularly the desert southwest of the United ...C. posadasii and ...
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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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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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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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Parasitic polymorphism of Coccidioidesspp
... Furthermore, our research group suggests the integrating by means of the recently published bibliographic informa- tion, in which the presence of both typical parasitic forms (spherules and spherules/endospores) as well ...
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Identification of Histoplasma capsulatum, Blastomyces dermatitidis, and Coccidioides Species by Repetitive Sequence Based PCR
... dermatitidis, Coccidioides, and, possibly, ...and Coccidioides isolates, which grouped into two unrelated clus- ...of Coccidioides isolates was composed only of isolates from California and the other ...
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Genomic and Population Analyses of the Mating Type Loci in Coccidioides Species Reveal Evidence for Sexual Reproduction and Gene Acquisition
... C. posadasii strains RMSCC 1040 (MAT1-1) and Silveira (MAT1-2) and ...C. posadasii strains RMSCC 1040 and Silveira were amplified with primers that span one or two ...
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Evaluation of the Specificity of Two Enzyme Immunoassays for Coccidioidomycosis by Using Sera from a Region of Endemicity and a Region of Nonendemicity
... the Coccidioides complement fixation antigen (IDCF) was performed using CDC-prepared reagents and procedures described pre- viously ...the Coccidioides tube precipitin antigen (IDTP) was performed using ...
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