Hospitalizations associated with disseminated coccidioidomycosis, Arizona and California, USA

Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Sep;18(9):1476-9. doi: 10.3201/eid1809.120151.

Abstract

We analyzed hospitalization databases from Arizona and California for disseminated coccidioidomycosis-associated hospitalizations among immunocompetent persons. Racial/ethnic disease ratios were characterized by a higher incidence of hospitalization among blacks compared with other groups. This finding suggests that HIV infection, AIDS, and primary immune conditions are not a major factor in this disparity.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Arizona / epidemiology
  • Arizona / ethnology
  • California / epidemiology
  • California / ethnology
  • Coccidioidomycosis / epidemiology*
  • Hospitalization*
  • Humans
  • Incidence