Endocarditis due to Coccidioides spp: The Seventh Case

Coccidioides, a dimorphic fungus endemic within the Americas, primarily causes pulmonary disease but may disseminate. We describe a case of confirmed Coccidioides endocarditis, the seventh reported in literature. Coccidioides endocarditis often requires tissue diagnosis and combined surgical and med...

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Autores principales: Horng, Lily M., Yaghoubian, Shadi, Ram, Arleen, Johnson, Royce, Castro, Luis, Kuo, Jenny, Deresinski, Stan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4498286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26180835
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv086
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author Horng, Lily M.
Yaghoubian, Shadi
Ram, Arleen
Johnson, Royce
Castro, Luis
Kuo, Jenny
Deresinski, Stan
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description Coccidioides, a dimorphic fungus endemic within the Americas, primarily causes pulmonary disease but may disseminate. We describe a case of confirmed Coccidioides endocarditis, the seventh reported in literature. Coccidioides endocarditis often requires tissue diagnosis and combined surgical and medical treatment.
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spelling pubmed-44982862015-07-15 Endocarditis due to Coccidioides spp: The Seventh Case Horng, Lily M. Yaghoubian, Shadi Ram, Arleen Johnson, Royce Castro, Luis Kuo, Jenny Deresinski, Stan Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports Coccidioides, a dimorphic fungus endemic within the Americas, primarily causes pulmonary disease but may disseminate. We describe a case of confirmed Coccidioides endocarditis, the seventh reported in literature. Coccidioides endocarditis often requires tissue diagnosis and combined surgical and medical treatment. Oxford University Press 2015-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4498286/ /pubmed/26180835 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv086 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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title_short Endocarditis due to Coccidioides spp: The Seventh Case
title_sort endocarditis due to coccidioides spp: the seventh case
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4498286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26180835
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv086
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