That desert life 🌵☀️ #cocci #cocci dioides #valleyfever #pathreslife 🔬

Coccidioides 🔎
#microbiology #surgpath #pathology #pathology residency

Bronchoalveolar lavage revealing a spherule of the dimorphic fungus Coccidioides immitis. #PathArt #PathTwitter #CytoPath #Cytology #Microbiology

Lung resections shows a mycetoma containing the dimorphic fungus Coccidioides immitis. Endospores are seen erupting from spherules. GMS stain. #PathArt #PathTwitter #MedTwitter #IDTwitter #Fungi

Bone marrow involvement by coccidioides #hemepath #cocci

Organismos compatibles con esférulas de coccidioides (B).
Anticuerpos IgG contra coccidioides:➕en sangre y LCR
Antígeno coccidioides: ➕sangre, LCR, orina y lavado broncoalveolar
🧫: Coccidioides en lavado broncoalveolar

COCCIDIOIDOMICOSIS DISEMINADA
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#micologia #neumología

Two coccidioides fungi species which cause valley fever are commonly found in soil in specific regions like California, Arizona and… see map below.

The fungi's spores can be stirred into the air by anything that disrupts the soil, such as farming, construction and wind.
And you…

Bronchoalveolar lavage containing dimorphic fungi of Coccidioides species. A spherule containing endospores is seen next to a macrophage. #PathTwitter #PathArt #IDTwitter #Microbiology #CytoPath #Cytology #Fungi

The lab of Katrina Hoyer studies immune dysfunction leading to autoimmune disease and host immunity to Coccidioides, the pathogen for the understudied Valley Fever. Prof. Hoyer is recruiting new students via QSB. sites.ucmerced.edu/khoyer2/

Not sure if this is Coccidioides (could be its lookalike Malbranchia) but its never a good feeling to see alternating arthroconidia on your fungal slide. Gonna have to send this one off to rule it out. #mycology #clinmicro #medicallaboratory #fungus

Coccidioides hyphal form in CSF of a child with chronic coccidioidal meningitis #ASMClinMicro #IDTwitter

Septic arthritis with coccidioides in synovium. Spherules range from 10-80 microns containing round endospores 2-5 microns #surgpath #microbiology

💎Coccidioides immitis Cervical Lymphadenitis 💎Melanie Bois Vanda Torous MD Dr. Suraksha.Rao B Zubair Baloch Xiaoyin "Sara" Jiang, MD (She/Her) Sanjay Mukhopadhyay Bin Xu Pembe Oltulu, MD Nafiseh Janaki, MD Woo Cheal Cho, MD Maryam Sayah, MD Raghavendra Pillappa Eduardo Alcaraz, MD PhD Lara Pijuan,MD PhD Liza Quintana, MD Zubair Baloch #cytopath #pathology

Which fungus🍄 = crushed🏓⚪️?
A) Pneumocystis
B) Blastomyces
C) Cryptococcus
D) Coccidioides
🖼️🙏Dr. Carol Farver
#CrittersOnTwitter #PathBugs #PathTwitter #PathResidents #PulmPath

Got some fresh air and played putt-putt this evening after work 😎 and couldn’t help but think about our endemic fungus, Coccidioides! Such an interesting fungus, and it seems really challenging to diagnose! So much to learn so just started with a brief overview! #q24MedMoment

「-ense」というのは、どこどこ産という意味です。先ほどの菌は、「ラブレター・フロム・カナダ」ならぬ「マイコバクテリウム・フロム・新宿」という意味です。その他、「-oides」は「のような」という意味です。たとえば、Coccidioidesは「コクシジウム類（原生生物）のような」ということです。

This image shows the spherule and endospore forms of the causative agent of Coccidioidomycosis (aka Valley fever), Coccidioides immitis, in the lung. Check out our latest ep for more info on this fascinating fungus!

Image: CDC/Dr. Edwin P. Ewing, Jr.

Düşünün, emekli oluyorsunuz, be pek çok Amerikalı’nın yaptığı gibi sıcak eyalet Arizona’ya taşınıyorsunuz, miss gibi açık hava size iyi gelecek. Ve sonra bu görseldeki durum oluyor. Valley Fever denen bu hastalık hava ile yayılan coccidioides küfünden kaynaklanıyor.

#MicroRounds (Day 960): 'Panic! At the Arthro'

Scenario: You're a new tech in Mycology. A fuzzy mold grows from sputum @ 24hrs & you see the following microscopically: fields packed w/ chains of arthroconidia!

Do you call it Coccidioides??! (stay tuned) #ASMClinMicro #IDTwitter

Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis): fungus Coccidioides in soil SW United States, Mexico and the Americas --> inhalation of microscopic fungal spores