Acquisition of coccidioidomycosis at necropsy by inhalation of coccidioidal endospores.
Coccidioidomycosis is accepted as being noncontagious because the infectious arthroconidial form of Coccidioides immitis is not produced in humans and other mammalian hosts. However, disseminated coccidioidomycosis developed in a veterinarian who autopsied a horse with disseminated disease but without draining lesions or productive cough. We postulate transmission occurred by inhalation of tissue-phase endospores aerosolized in the course of dissection.
Kohn
G J
GJ
Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento 95817.
Linné
S R
SR
Smith
C M
CM
Hoeprich
P D
PD
D000328:Adult; D000666:Amphotericin B / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000818:Animals; D001344:Autopsy / Q000662:veterinary*; D003045:Coccidioides / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003047:Coccidioidomycosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000635:transmission* / Q000662:veterinary; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000635:transmission; D006736:Horses; D006801:Humans; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D016921:Meningitis, Fungal / Q000188:drug therapy; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D013172:Spores, Fungal; D014730:Veterinary Medicine
D000666:Amphotericin B