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ArticleCureus2026

Coccidioidomycosis as a Diagnostic Consideration: Expanding the Pulmonary Differential.

Jane Ma, Patrick H Poquiz

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Article in Cureus, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jane MaInternal Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA.
Patrick H PoquizInternal Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a case of a previously healthy 50-year-old man with a two-week history of progressive exertional dyspnea and intermittent sharp pain in the left chest and lower rib area. He then developed cough and low-grade fever, with chest X-ray imaging demonstrating possible left lower lobe consolidation suggestive of bacterial pneumonia. Given the geographic location where the patient lived, with environmental exposure to farming dust, and symptoms that did not improve with antibiotic treatment, alternative diagnoses were considered. The patient was eventually diagnosed with coccidioidomycosis via a positive antibody screen and fungal bronchoalveolar lavage studies that grew

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coccidioides immitiscoccidioidomycosiscoccidiomycosis pneumoniapulmonary coccidioidomycosisvalley fever

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PMID42395195
PMCPMC13326696

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