Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis to the Gallbladder

• Main Authors: Kulraj Grewal MD (Author), Tushar Bajaj MD (Author), Greti Petersen MD (Author), Augustine Munoz MD (Author), Arman Froush DO (Author), Arash Heidari MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Coccidioidomycosis is an infection caused by inhalation of arthroconidia produced by dimorphic fungi in the genus Coccidioides . Forty percent of patients will develop an influenza-like illness with symptoms suggestive of a mild and self-limited respiratory infection; however, 5% of these individual...