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Coccidioidomycosis - Prevention

Alternative Names

San Joaquin Valley fever; Valley fever

Prevention:

Maintaining general good health will help keep the disease in the benign pulmonary form. Prevention of AIDS or other causes of damage to the immune system will usually prevent the more severe forms of the disease.

  • Reviewed last on: 12/3/2008
  • David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

References

Galgiani, JN. Coccidioidomycosis. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. <i>Cecil Medicine</i>. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007: chap 354.

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