COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS
- 8 October 1938
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 111 (15) , 1362-1365
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1938.02790410018005
Abstract
Since coccidioidal granuloma has been found to be of considerable frequency in California, particularly in the San Joaquin Valley,1and since it has been found that not only man but cattle and sheep may acquire the disease,2there has been much interest in how infection with the fungus coccidioides may be acquired. It has been shown that occasionally infection occurs first at the site of a break in the skin such as a puncture of a cactus spine3or an abrasion from picking walnuts,4but such a traumatic history has rarely been obtained. Clinical experience has shown that there is no indication of man to man or animal to man infection, and study of other possible methods of infection, including insect bite, have failed to show how the disease is transmitted. A number of clinicians have long suspected that the infection may follow inhalation of theThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: