Coexisting Pulmonary Coccidioidomycosis and Tuberculosis

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PRIOR to World War II, coccidioidomycosis was a relatively rare disease known chiefly to physicians in the San Joaquin Valley and a few other scattered areas in the southwestern portion of the United States. Winn,1 in 1941, reported a series of 12 cases in which attention was called to the frequency of pulmonary cavitation as a manifestation of coccidioidomycosis.During the war, when hundreds of thousands of troops were assigned for desert maneuvers in endemic areas such as Arizona, southern California and southwestern Texas, a large number acquired coccidioidal infection with pulmonary cavitation. As a result, many medical officers were . . .

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