Fungal infections, as is shown in the popular OTT series 'The Last of Us', are now emerging as a new global health crisis. According to reports, a dangerous fungal infection called Coccidioides — or ...

The act of breathing the Arizona air creates the risk for a deadly disease called valley fever. Here are 9 things Arizonans must know.

Of the roughly 150,000 recognized fungal species, and perhaps the several million not yet identified, few cause disease in humans, 1 fewer do so in persons not overtly immunosuppressed, and only a ...

Credit: Getty Images With an increasing geographic footprint, it is important for clinicians to be able to recognize and treat coccidioidomycosis, or valley fever, in susceptible patient populations.

Learn more about coccidioides, the fungus responsible for valley fever, and what researchers are doing to monitor and track it. Dwelling beneath the soil in the American Southwest are coccidioides ...

Coccidioidomycosis is a dimorphic fungal infection endemic to the southwestern United States and parts of the Americas. Pregnant individuals have an increased risk of disseminated disease, yet the ...