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Article: Dust in the Wind-Cutaneous and Parotid Effects of Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis.
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- Travel Medicine Advisor
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Dust in the Wind--Cutaneous and Parotid Effects of Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis
Case Presentation
With Comment By Mary-Louise Scully, MD, Sansum-Santa Barbara Medical Foundation Clinic, Santa Barbara, Calif., and Associate Editor, Travel Medicine Advisor.
A 52-year-old African American male from Ridgefield, California, developed fever, cough, and flu-like symptoms; a chest X-ray was compatible with pneumonia. After a course of antibiotics failed to improve his symptoms, serology for possible coccidioidomycosis was obtained and found to be positive. The patient began fluconazole therapy with gradual resolution of his clinical symptoms. ...