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DictionarySeecocaineCoccidioides immitis
Coccidioides immitis[‚käk·sid·ē¦ȯi‚dēz i′mīd·əs or i′mēd·əs] (medicine) A mold primarily found in desert soil that converts into spherules containing endospores when growing within the body and that causes coccidioidomycosis or San Joaquin valley fever. Coccidioides immitis
Coc·cid·i·oi·des im·mit·is (kok-sid'ē-oy'dēz i-mī'tis) A dimorphic fungus widely distributed in desert and semiarid areas of the southwestern U.S., Mexico, and South and Central America; causes coccidioidomycosis, the clinical manifestations of which range from self-limited primary pulmonary infection to a disseminated fatal disease. |