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ReviewThe Science of the total environment2024

A microbial risk assessor's guide to Valley Fever (Coccidioides spp.): Case study and review of risk factors.

David Kahn, William Chen, Yarrow Linden, Karalee A Corbeil, Sarah Lowry, Ciara A Higham, Karla S Mendez, Paige Burch, Taylor DiFondi, Marc Verhougstraete and 4 more

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Review in The Science of the total environment, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 10 institutions in 2 countries.

David KahnDepartment of Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
William ChenDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
Yarrow LindenDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Karalee A CorbeilDepartment of Water Management and Hydrological Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 79016, USA.
Sarah LowryDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Ciara A HighamLeeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
Karla S MendezThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Paige BurchSeaford High School, 1575 Seamans Neck Rd, Seaford, NY 11783, USA.
Taylor DiFondiSeaford High School, 1575 Seamans Neck Rd, Seaford, NY 11783, USA.
Marc VerhougstraeteUniversity of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, 1295 N. Marton Ave., Tucson, AZ 85724, USA.
Anneclaire J De RoosDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Charles N HaasDepartment of Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Charles GerbaUniversity of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, 1295 N. Marton Ave., Tucson, AZ 85724, USA.
Kerry A HamiltonThe Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, 1001 S. McAllister Ave, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA; School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA. Electronic address: kerry.hamilton@asu.edu.
Drexel University · USA-Team (United States) · USUniversity of Arizona · USArizona State University · USStanford University · USTexas A&M University · USThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · USUniversity of Leeds · GBUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUniversity of Notre Dame · US

Funding

QMRA IV- Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment Interdisciplinary Vehicle: Addressing Emerging Global Health RisksR25GM135058 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI MITCHELL, JADE, WEIR, MARK HOWARD · 2020 to 2024
$2.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R25 GM135058
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Valley Fever is a respiratory disease caused by inhalation of arthroconidia, a type of spore produced by fungi within the genus Coccidioides spp. which are found in dry, hot ecosystems of the Western Hemisphere. A quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) for the disease has not yet been performed due to a lack of dose-response models and a scarcity of quantitative occurrence data from environmental samples. A literature review was performed to gather data on experimental animal dosing studies, environmental occurrence, human disease outbreaks, and meteorological associations. As a result, a risk framework is presented with information for parameterizing QMRA models for Coccidioides spp., with eight new dose-response models proposed. A probabilistic QMRA was conducted for a Southwestern US agricultural case study, evaluating eight scenarios related to farming occupational exposures. Median daily workday risks for developing severe Valley Fever ranged from 2.53 × 10

Indexed as

CoccidioidesCoccidioidomycosisAnimalsEcosystemHumansRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsC. immitisClimateCoccidioidesCoccidioidomycosisC. posadasii meteorological factorsValley feverWeather

Identifiers

PMID38242485
PMCPMC10923130
OpenAlexW4390970357

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