Coccidioidomycosis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. History of Coccidioidomycosis: “Dust to Dust”

   • Stanley C. Deresinski

   Pages 1-20

3. Overview of Mycology, and the Mycology of Coccidioides immitis

   • M. Huppert, S. H. Sun

   Pages 21-46

4. Mycological Diagnosis of Coccidioidomycosis

   • M. Huppert, S. H. Sun

   Pages 47-61

5. Epidemiology of Coccidioidomycosis

   • Demosthenes Pappagianis

   Pages 63-85

6. Immunology of Coccidioidomycosis

   • David A. Stevens

   Pages 87-95

7. Serology and Serodiagnosis of Coccidioidomycosis

   • Demosthenes Pappagianis

   Pages 97-112

8. Pathology of Coccidioidomycosis

   • Robert W. Huntington

   Pages 113-132

9. Classification of Coccidioidomycosis

   • David Salkin

   Pages 133-138

10. Primary Coccidioidomycosis

    • Antonino Catanzaro, David J. Drutz

    Pages 139-145

11. Pulmonary Coccidioidomycosis

    • Antonino Catanzaro, David J. Drutz

    Pages 147-161

12. Coccidioidal Meningitis

    • Peter C. Kelly

    Pages 163-193

13. Coccidioidomycosis of Bone and Joints

    • Stanley C. Deresinski

    Pages 195-211

14. Cutaneous Coccidioidomycosis

    • Paul H. Jacobs

    Pages 213-224

15. Genitourinary Coccidioidomycosis

    • Eskild A. Petersen

    Pages 225-229

16. Ophthalmic Coccidioidomycosis

    • John N. Galgiani

    Pages 231-236

17. Other Coccidioidal Syndromes

    • David A. Stevens

    Pages 237-239

18. Coccidioidomycosis in Pregnancy

    • Robert P. Harvey

    Pages 241-244

19. Coccidioidomycosis in Pediatrics

    • Allan Lavetter

    Pages 245-248

20. Coccidioidomycosis in Immunocompromised Hosts

    • David A. Stevens

    Pages 249-252

The idea for compiling a book on coccidioidomycosis first began to take shape in my mind in 1976 at an annual meeting of the Coccidioidomycosis Study Group (see Chapter 23) in Palo Alto. In my discussions with the chairman, Demosthenes Pappagianis, we agreed that considerable data had accumulated in the almost 20 years since the publication of Marshall Fiese's landmark book, Coccidioidomycosis (Charles C Thomas, Spring­ field, Ill. , 1958). Pappagianis encouraged me to consider writing a new book. Also about this time, my Stanford colleague Tom Merigan was collaborating in assembling a series of texts on infectious diseases, and he added his encouragement to that of Pappagianis. I planned to enlist the collaboration of my colleagues for the multiauthored work I had conceived to encompass the various facets of coccidioidomycosis. The more I worked, the more I appreciated the effort that had gone into the Fiese book. I hope the final product is a useful, readable, and comprehensive text and reference source for this disease and a worthy successor to the Fiese book. This volume places greater emphasis on the basic science background of present clinical experience and attempts to examine critically the data base and how it fits with recommendations made in the clinical literature. In some of the contributed chapters, I made virtually no changes; in others, I battered them to fit my preconceptions.

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• Division of Infectious Diseases, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, USA

  David A. Stevens

• Dept. of Medicine, Stanford University, Medical School, Stanford, USA

  David A. Stevens

• Infectious Disease Research Laboratory, Institute for Medical Research of Santa Clara County, San Jose, USA

  David A. Stevens

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