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. 2018 Apr;24(4):779-781.
doi: 10.3201/eid2404.161568.

Testing for Coccidioidomycosis among Community-Acquired Pneumonia Patients, Southern California, USA1

Sara Y Tartof, Kaitlin Benedict, Fagen Xie, Gunter K Rieg, Kalvin C Yu, Richard Contreras, Jonathan Truong, Kimberlee Fong, Hung Fu Tseng, Steven J Jacobsen, Rajal K Mody

Testing for Coccidioidomycosis among Community-Acquired Pneumonia Patients, Southern California, USA1

Sara Y Tartof et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 Apr.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: California; United States; bacteria; coccidioidomycosis; community-acquired pneumonia; fungi; pneumonia; respiratory infections.

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