Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii.
Coccidioidomycosis refers to disease caused by either of the above species. Infection may be a self-limited primary infection (often called Valley Fever after the San Joaquin Valley in central California) or pneumonia. Subsequently other progressive forms of coccidioidomycosis occur including:
- Meningitis
- Disseminated disease to the skin, lymph nodes, bone, or any other body site
- Nodule in the lung
- Chronic cavitary pulmonary coccidioidomycosis
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