Testing for Coccidioidomycosis among Community-Acquired Pneumonia Patients, Southern California, USA

We conducted a cohort study to identify characteristics associated with testing for, and testing positive for, coccidioidomycosis among patients with community-acquired pneumonia in southern California, USA. Limited and delayed testing probably leads to underdiagnosis among non-Hispanic black, Filip...

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Autores principales: Tartof, Sara Y., Benedict, Kaitlin, Xie, Fagen, Rieg, Gunter K., Yu, Kalvin C., Contreras, Richard, Truong, Jonathan, Fong, Kimberlee, Tseng, Hung Fu, Jacobsen, Steven J., Mody, Rajal K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5875278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29553315
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2404.161568
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Sumario:We conducted a cohort study to identify characteristics associated with testing for, and testing positive for, coccidioidomycosis among patients with community-acquired pneumonia in southern California, USA. Limited and delayed testing probably leads to underdiagnosis among non-Hispanic black, Filipino, or Hispanic patients and among high-risk groups, including persons in whom antimicrobial drug therapy has failed.

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