Coccidioides-Induced Pyopneumothorax in an Immunocompetent Patient

Coccidioidomycosis is a rare infection caused by the dimorphic fungi Coccidiodes immitus or Coccidioides posadasii. This fungal infection is very common in the American Southwest as well as northern Mexico. Though the fungus is ubiquitous, symptomatic coccidioidomycosis usually occurs in the elderly...

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Autores principales: Khalafi, Seyed, Brockman, Michael J, Dihowm, Fatma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10313086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37398826
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39782
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author Khalafi, Seyed
Brockman, Michael J
Dihowm, Fatma
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description Coccidioidomycosis is a rare infection caused by the dimorphic fungi Coccidiodes immitus or Coccidioides posadasii. This fungal infection is very common in the American Southwest as well as northern Mexico. Though the fungus is ubiquitous, symptomatic coccidioidomycosis usually occurs in the elderly or immunocompromised. This case report discusses a unique instance of an immunocompetent 29-year-old male without any notable past medical history who was found to have a coccidioidal cavitary lung lesion with concomitant pyopneumothorax.
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spelling pubmed-103130862023-07-01 Coccidioides-Induced Pyopneumothorax in an Immunocompetent Patient Khalafi, Seyed Brockman, Michael J Dihowm, Fatma Cureus Internal Medicine Coccidioidomycosis is a rare infection caused by the dimorphic fungi Coccidiodes immitus or Coccidioides posadasii. This fungal infection is very common in the American Southwest as well as northern Mexico. Though the fungus is ubiquitous, symptomatic coccidioidomycosis usually occurs in the elderly or immunocompromised. This case report discusses a unique instance of an immunocompetent 29-year-old male without any notable past medical history who was found to have a coccidioidal cavitary lung lesion with concomitant pyopneumothorax. Cureus 2023-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10313086/ /pubmed/37398826 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39782 Text en Copyright © 2023, Khalafi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Khalafi, Seyed
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Coccidioides-Induced Pyopneumothorax in an Immunocompetent Patient
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title_full Coccidioides-Induced Pyopneumothorax in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_fullStr Coccidioides-Induced Pyopneumothorax in an Immunocompetent Patient
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title_short Coccidioides-Induced Pyopneumothorax in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_sort coccidioides-induced pyopneumothorax in an immunocompetent patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10313086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37398826
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