Definitions
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- noun an infection of the lungs and skin characterized by excessive sputum and nodules
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Examples
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SOMERS: It turned out to be something called coccidiomycosis (ph) which is a fungus that exists in the desert southwest and it lies dormant in most people there and something knocked out my immune system that just put me into the anaphylactic shock and into the emergency room.
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A lung biopsy showed it was not cancer, rather it was a common fungal illness, Valley Fever, also called coccidiomycosis.
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Coccidiosis or coccidiomycosis is also referred to as San Joaquin Valley fever or Valley fever.
unknown title 2009
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Those with AIDS are especially prone to pulmonary infections with coccidiomycosis, involvement of the skin and disseminated, or widely spread, disease.
unknown title 2009
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While in Arizona, he’d contracted a pulmonary fungal infection, coccidiomycosis, not uncommon in the desert.
After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010
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