TY - JOUR
T1 - Tempest from Tehachapi takes toll or coccidioides conveyed aloft and afar
AU - Pappagianis, Demosthenes
AU - Einstein, H.
PY - 1978
Y1 - 1978
N2 - New cases of acute primary coccidioidomycosis in large numbers resulted from a windstorm that blew through Kern County, California, on December 20, 1977. In most of these cases clinically apparent infections developed in early and mid-January 1978 and occurred not only in persons exposed directly to the dust raised by the windstorm but also among those in many areas to the north and west of Kern County. The exposure to the dustborne Coccidioides immitis was brief because of the arrival of drenching rains, but the continued heavy rainfall increased the potential for large numbers of cases of coccidioidomycosis to occur in the summer-fall season.
AB - New cases of acute primary coccidioidomycosis in large numbers resulted from a windstorm that blew through Kern County, California, on December 20, 1977. In most of these cases clinically apparent infections developed in early and mid-January 1978 and occurred not only in persons exposed directly to the dust raised by the windstorm but also among those in many areas to the north and west of Kern County. The exposure to the dustborne Coccidioides immitis was brief because of the arrival of drenching rains, but the continued heavy rainfall increased the potential for large numbers of cases of coccidioidomycosis to occur in the summer-fall season.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 735056
AN - SCOPUS:0018215707
VL - 129
SP - 527
EP - 530
JO - Western Journal of Medicine
JF - Western Journal of Medicine
SN - 0093-0415
IS - 6
ER -