Coccidioidomycosis

Abstract

THE health problem caused by the return of servicemen, who may act as carriers of diseases contracted overseas, is well known and needs no further elaboration. However, another health hazard, which has not received sufficient attention, has also arisen because of the dispersion of diseases not usually found in a given region. Such a disease, relatively rare in New England, is coccidioidomycosis. It has brought with it a serious hazard, which affects primarily the workers in the hospital laboratories who handle pathogenic material. Because of unfamiliarity with the disease, even well trained technicians may handle pathogenic cultures from these patients . . .