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Coccidioides
A mitosporic fungal genus which causes COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS.
(Source: National Library of Medicine 2013 MeSH Scope Note and Classification)
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Figure 1. <i>Coccidioides immitis</i>, GMS stain of a lung biopsy.
Figure 1. Coccidioides immitis, GMS stain of a lung biopsy.
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Figure 2. <i>Coccidioides immitis</i> by cytopathological examination.
Figure 2. Coccidioides immitis by cytopathological examination.
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Figure 3. <i>Coccidioides</i> seen by H and E stain of biopsy.
Figure 3. Coccidioides seen by H and E stain of biopsy.
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Figure 4. <i>Coccidioides</i> species seen on tape prep fromculture growth, lactophenol cotton blue stain.
Figure 4. Coccidioides species seen on tape prep fromculture growth, lactophenol cotton blue stain.
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Figure 5. <i>Coccidioides species</i> on Sabouraud dextrose<br/> agar, cultured from bronchial washings.
Figure 5. Coccidioides species on Sabouraud dextrose
agar, cultured from bronchial washings.
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Notes
For Figure 3, please refer to the Contributing Authors page for the list of IDSA 2006 case contributors. Figure 3 and the associated case were originally submitted to the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2006 Annual Meeting Fellows' Day. Copyright 44th Annual Meeting of Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), 2006. Used with permission.
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References
  1. National Library of Medicine 2013 MeSH Scope Note and Classification

National Library of Medicine MeSH Classification

Eukaryota
Fungi
Mitosporic Fungi
Acremonium
Alternaria
Aspergillus
Beauveria
Blastomyces
Botrytis
Brettanomyces
Candida
Chrysosporium
Cladosporium
Coccidioides
Colletotrichum
Cryptococcus
Duddingtonia
Epidermophyton
Exophiala
Fusarium
Geotrichum
Gliocladium
Helminthosporium
Histoplasma
Kloeckera
Lacazia
Madurella
Malassezia
Metarhizium
Microsporum
Neotyphodium
Paecilomyces
Paracoccidioides
Penicillium
Phialophora
Pyricularia grisea
Rhizoctonia
Rhodotorula
Scedosporium
Scopulariopsis
Sporothrix
Stachybotrys
Trichoderma
Trichophyton
Trichosporon
Verticillium