ArticleCurrent infectious disease reports2010
What's Behind the Increasing Rates of Coccidioidomycosis in Arizona and California?
Article in Current infectious disease reports, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Coccidioidomycosis and Paracoccidioidomycosis.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Climate Change and Inpatient Dermatology.Current dermatology reports · 2020Review
- The mysterious desert dwellers: Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii, causative fungal agents of coccidioidomycosis.Virulence · 2019Review
- Expansion of Coccidioidomycosis Endemic Regions in the United States in Response to Climate Change.GeoHealth · 2019Article
- The disappearing Salton Sea: A critical reflection on the emerging environmental threat of disappearing saline lakes and potential impacts on children's health.The Science of the total environment · 2019Article
- Investigating the Relationship Between Climate and Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis).EcoHealth · 2018Article
- Dust Exposure and Coccidioidomycosis Prevention Among Solar Power Farm Construction Workers in California.American journal of public health · 2017Article
- Assessment of Vulnerability to Coccidioidomycosis in Arizona and California.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- Call for a California coccidioidomycosis consortium to face the top ten challenges posed by a recalcitrant regional disease.Mycopathologia · 2015Article
- The Changing Epidemiology of Coccidioidomycosis in Los Angeles (LA) County, California, 1973-2011.PloS one · 2015Article
- Beyond the superficial: Coccidioides immitis fungaemia in a man with fever, fatigue and skin nodules: a case of an emerging and evolving pathogen.BMJ case reports · 2014Article
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- Coccidioidomycosis: epidemiology.Clinical epidemiology · 2013Article
- Epidemiology of Invasive Fungal Infections in Latin America.Current fungal infection reports · 2012Article
- Coccidioidomycosis-Associated Deaths in California, 2000-2013.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
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Abstract
The number of cases of symptomatic coccidioidomycosis reported in the endemic regions of California and Arizona has increased over the past two decades. In California, the southern San Joaquin Valley has seen a dramatic increase, with rates of symptomatic illness of more than 150 per 100,000 of population in Kern County. In Arizona, almost 5,000 cases are now reported yearly. In contrast to California, the coccidioidal endemic region in Arizona is also the most populous region of the state, and Arizona now accounts for 60% of all cases reported in the United States. Reasons for these increases appear to be multifactorial. Possible etiologies include climate change, changes in local exposure, an increase in the number of individuals susceptible to infection living in the endemic region, and increased testing and reporting. None of these factors are mutually exclusive and none has been clearly established as the etiology for the increase.
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