ArticleMedical mycology2016
Molecular detection of airborne Coccidioides in Tucson, Arizona.
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22 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Enhanced Detection of Coccidioides spp. Fungi from Environmental Samples Using Droplet Digital PCR.Emerging infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Hypothesis on the dust-borne atmospheric transport of Coccidioides, causative fungal pathogen for coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever).Medical mycology · 2026Article
- Detection of AirborneEnvironmental science & technology letters · 2025Article
- Detection of airbornebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Challenges to Implementing a Vaccine for Coccidioidomycosis.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- A microbial risk assessor's guide to Valley Fever (Coccidioides spp.): Case study and review of risk factors.The Science of the total environment · 2024Review
- Understanding the exposure risk of aerosolized Coccidioides in a Valley fever endemic metropolis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Coccidioides undetected in soils from agricultural land and uncorrelated with time or the greater soil fungal community on undeveloped land.PLoS pathogens · 2023Article
- Combating the Dust Devil: Utilizing Naturally Occurring Soil Microbes in Arizona to Inhibit the Growth ofJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- The air mycobiome is decoupled from the soil mycobiome in the California San Joaquin Valley.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- Coccidioides Species: A Review of Basic Research: 2022.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Factors Influencing Distribution of Coccidioides immitis in Soil, Washington State, 2016.mSphere · 2021Article
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- Coccidioidomycosis and COVID-19 Co-Infection, United States, 2020.Emerging infectious diseases · 2021Review
- Investigating the Role of Animal Burrows on the Ecology and Distribution of Coccidioides spp. in Arizona Soils.Mycopathologia · 2020Article
- The mysterious desert dwellers: Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii, causative fungal agents of coccidioidomycosis.Virulence · 2019Review
- Coccidioides ecology and genomics.Medical mycology · 2019Review
- Detection of Coccidioides posadasii from xerophytic environments in Venezuela reveals risk of naturally acquired coccidioidomycosis infections.Emerging microbes & infections · 2018Article
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Abstract
Environmental surveillance of the soil-dwelling fungus Coccidioides is essential for the prevention of Valley fever, a disease primarily caused by inhalation of the arthroconidia. Methods for collecting and detecting Coccidioides in soil samples are currently in use by several laboratories; however, a method utilizing current air sampling technologies has not been formally demonstrated for the capture of airborne arthroconidia. In this study, we collected air/dust samples at two sites (Site A and Site B) in the endemic region of Tucson, Arizona, and tested a variety of air samplers and membrane matrices. We then employed a single-tube nested qPCR assay for molecular detection. At both sites, numerous soil samples (n = 10 at Site A and n = 24 at Site B) were collected and Coccidioides was detected in two samples (20%) at Site A and in eight samples (33%) at Site B. Of the 25 air/dust samples collected at both sites using five different air sampling methods, we detected Coccidioides in three samples from site B. All three samples were collected using a high-volume sampler with glass-fiber filters. In this report, we describe these methods and propose the use of these air sampling and molecular detection strategies for environmental surveillance of Coccidioides.
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