Sputum culture of Coccidioides immitis on Sabouraud's medium, showing white, cottony fungus growth. Coccidioides immitis is a pathogenic fungus that resides in the soil in certain parts of the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and a few other areas in the Western Hemisphere. Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ...
Divisions Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota The Fungi (singular: fungus) are a large group of organisms ranked as a kingdom within the Domain Eukaryota. ...
Subphyla/Classes Archaeascomycetes Euascomycetes Hemiascomycetes or Pezizomycotina Laboulbeniomycetes Eurotiomycetes Lecanoromycetes Leotiomycetes Pezizomycetes Sordariomycetes Dothideomycetes (and many more) Saccharomycotina Saccharomycetes Taphrinomycotina Neolectomycetes Pneumocystidomycetes Schizosaccharomycetes Taphrinomycetes The Ascomycota, formerly known as the Ascomycetae, or Ascomycetes, are a Division of Fungi, whose members are commonly known as the Sac Fungi, which produce spores...
Classes Pezizomycotina is a subdivision of the Ascomycota (fungi which form their spores in a sac-like ascus) and is more or less the same thing as the older taxon Euascomycota. ...
Families Onygenaceae Arthrodermataceae The Onygenales are an order of Ascomycetes, within the eurotiomycetes Ascomycetes. ...
Binomial name Coccidioides immitis G.W. Stiles Sputum culture of Coccidioides immitis on Sabourauds medium, showing white, cottony fungus growth. ...
In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ...
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Sputum is matter that is coughed up from the respiratory tract, such as mucus or phlegm, mixed with saliva and then expectorated from the mouth. ...
A pathogen or infectious agent is a biological agent that causes disease or illness to its host. ...
Divisions Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Glomeromycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota Deuteromycota Fungi (singular fungus) are a kingdom of eukaryotic organisms. ...
For the American hard rock band, see Soil (band). ...
Regional definitions vary from source to source. ...
The geographical western hemisphere of Earth, highlighted in yellow. ...
It, along with its relative Coccidioides posadasii, can cause a disease called coccidioidomycosis, and it is a rare cause of meningitis, mostly in immunocompromised persons. It has been declared a select agent by both the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and is considered a biosafety level 3 pathogen. Meningitis is the inflammation (infection) of the meninges which are the membranes that cover the brain and spine. ...
In medicine, immune deficiency (or immunodeficiency) is a state where the immune system is incapable of defending the organism from infectious disease. ...
In the United States, select agents are pathogens or biological toxins which have been declared by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety. The Centers for...
The United States Department of Health and Human Services, often abbreviated HHS, is a Cabinet department of the United States government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, also called the Agriculture Department, or USDA, is a Cabinet department of the United States Federal Government. ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) specifies four levels of biocontainment precautions for biological agents, Biosafety Levels 1 through 4. ...
In Literature
Coccidioides immitis is used as a plot device in Thunderhead, a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. (Spoiler) The fungus (prepared from infected victims) is revealed to be the principal agent in corpse powder (based on corpse poison used by Witch (Navajo)). Douglas Preston (born 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an author of several techno-thriller and horror novels with Lincoln Child. ...
Lincoln Child (born 1957) is an author of techno-thriller and horror novels. ...
There are a number of beliefs in traditional Navajo culture relating to practices which, in English, are all referred to as witchcraft. ...
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 Microscopic appearance of an old culture of Coccidioides immitis, showing fragmented chlamydospores. This is the infective form of the fungus occurring in nature. |
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