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Investigation of an outbreak of endemic coccidioidomycosis in Brazil's Northeastern State of Piauí with a review of the occurrence and distribution of Coccidioides immitis in three other Brazilian states

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An outbreak of coccidioidomycosis is described that involved three individuals and eight of their dogs, who had engaged in a successful hunt for nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) in the environs of Oeiras, a community in Brazil's north eastern state of Piauí.Diagnosis was based on clinical, serological and cultural findings. Four of 24 soil samples collected in and around the burrow of an armadillo yielded cultures of Coccidioides immitis, thus establishing the endemicity of that mould in the state of Piauí. A literature review revealed that C. immitis, aside from that state, is endemic in three other Brazilian states — Bahia, Ceará and Maranhão. These four contiguous states have semi-arid regions where climatic conditions and their flora are similar to those that exist in C. immitis's endemic regions in North, Central and South America.

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  1. Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    B. Wanke, M. dos Santos Lazera & P.C.F. Monteiro

  2. Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil

    F.C. Lima, M.J.S. Leal & P.L. Ferreira Filho

  3. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.

    L. Kaufman & R.W. Pinner

  4. Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.

    L. Ajello

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Wanke, B., dos Santos Lazera, M., Monteiro, P. et al. Investigation of an outbreak of endemic coccidioidomycosis in Brazil's Northeastern State of Piauí with a review of the occurrence and distribution of Coccidioides immitis in three other Brazilian states. Mycopathologia 148, 57–67 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007183022761

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