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SUBMITTER: Chow NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4962330 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chow Nancy A NA Griffin Dale W DW Barker Bridget M BM Loparev Vladimir N VN Litvintseva Anastasia P AP
Medical mycology 20160503 6
Environmental surveillance of the soil-dwelling fungus Coccidioides is essential for the prevention of Valley fever, a disease primarily caused by inhalation of the arthroconidia. Methods for collecting and detecting Coccidioides in soil samples are currently in use by several laboratories; however, a method utilizing current air sampling technologies has not been formally demonstrated for the capture of airborne arthroconidia. In this study, we collected air/dust samples at two sites (Site A an ...[more]