A data repository for animal surveillance efforts of coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever). Please contact me if you need help submitting surveillance data (psh102@unm.edu).
Salazar-Hamm PS, Montoya KN, Montoya L, Cook K, Liphardt S, Taylor JW, et al. Breathing can be dangerous: Opportunistic fungal pathogens and the diverse community of the small mammal lung mycobiome. Front Fungal Biol. 2022;3:996574. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffunb.2022.996574
- Species of Coccidioides were detected in 12% (24/199) of samples using ITS2 amplicon sequencing.
- Coccidioides was present in a diverse number of hosts (14 mammalian species) adding nine new species of wild mammals. However, there does not appear to be one sole dominant host.
- Coccidioides appeared to be commensal and in low relative abundance and its presence didn't disrupt the normal lung mycobiome.
James AE, Pastenkos G, Bradway D, Baszler T. Autochthonous transmission of Coccidioides in animals, Washington, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2019;25(1):123–125. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2501.180411
- Five cases of coccidioidomycosis in animals that were acquired within Washington, USA, that have not traveled outside of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, regardless of the amount of time between travel and onset of disease.
Huckabone SE, Gulland FMD, Johnson SM, Colegrove KM, Dodd EM, Pappagianis D, et al. Coccidioidomycosis and other systemic mycoses of marine mammals stranding along the central California, USA coast: 1998-2012. J Wildl Dis. 2015;51(2):295–308. https://doi.org/10.7589/2014-06-143
- Of >7,000 mammals stranding along the California coast, 36 had coccidioidomycosis (15 sea lions, 20 sea otters, and one harbor seal)
- Species of Coccidioides is the most common pathogen causing systemic mycosis in marine mammals in central California
Catalán-Dibene J, Johnson SM, Eaton R, Romero-Olivares AL, Baptista-Rosas RC, Pappagianis D, et al. Detection of coccidioidal antibodies in serum of a small rodent community in Baja California, Mexico. Fungal Biol. 2014;118(3):330-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2014.01.006
- By testing the serum from 40-trapped rodents with ELISA, antibodies against Coccidioides was detected in three samples from two rodent species: Peromyscus maniculatus and Neotoma lepida.
- A nested PCR of the ITS2 rDNA region using nearby soil samples recovered Coccidioides from 15 out of 24 (62.5%) samples.
Cordeiro R, Rocha de Castro e Silva K, Brilhante R, Moura F, Duarte N, Marques F, et al. Coccidioides posadasii Infection in Bats, Brazil. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012;18(4):668-670. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1804.111641
- Coccidioides posadasii was recovered from Carollia perspicillata bat lungs in northeast Brazil.
- Immunologic studies detected coccidioidal antibodies and antigens in Glossophaga soricina and Desmodus rotundus bats.
Eulalio KD, de Macedo RL, Salmito Cavalcanti MdA, Soares Martins LM, dos Santos Lazéra M, Wanke B. Coccidioides immitis isolated from armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) in the state of Piauí, northeast Brazil. Mycopathologia. 2001;149:57–61. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007273019647
- Culturing and histopathology confirmed Coccidioides in 3 of 26 (11.5%) nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) in Piauí, northeast Brazil.