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Coccidioides and Valley fever

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Detection of Coccidioides in mammal lungs across the endemic Valley fever region of the southwestern U.S.
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Temperature impacts the growth of Coccidioides with C. posadasii exhibiting a significantly faster growth rate at 37C than C. immitis.
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BSL3 biocontainment of Coccidioides
Salazar-Hamm et al. 2022; Mead et al. 2020; Hamm et al. 2019
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