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

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Tartof, Sara Y. ; Benedict, Kaitlin ; Xie, Fagen ; Rieg, Gunter K. ; Yu, Kalvin C. ; Contreras, Richard ; Truong, Jonathan ; Fong, Kimberlee ; Tseng, Hung Fu ; Jacobsen, Steven J. ; Mody, Rajal K.
• Description:
  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.
• Subjects:
  Coccidioides Coccidioidomycosis Community-Acquired Infections Dispatch Female Humans Immunoassay Male Odds Ratio
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 24(4):779-781.
• Pubmed ID:
  29553315
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5875278
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California
• Volume:
  24
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6b0e44faf3f9617ea64ea81121cb805ebab3bbb0acb4ed2ef7f8ece751a4bf56
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/53048/cdc_53048_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 570.44 KB ]