Coccidioides /Coc·cid·i·oi·des/ (kok-sid″e-oi´dēz) a genus of pathogenic fungi, including C. im´mitis, the cause of coccidioidomycosis.coccidioi´dal
Coccidioides
Coccidioides [kok-sid″ĕ-oi´dēz]
Coc·cid·i·oi·des (k k-s d  -oi dz)n. A genus of fungi, a single species of which, Coccidiodes immitis, causes coccidioidomycosis. |
Coccidioides
[kok·sid′ē·oi′dēz]
a pathogenic dimorphic genus of Fungi Imperfecti of the form-class Euascomycetes, form-family Onygenacaea. In soil it grows as a mycelium with infectious units called arthrospores; in tissue as a spherule with endospores. C. immitis causes coccidioidomycosis and fungal pneumonia.
Coccidioides [kok-sid″ĕ-oi´dēz]
a genus of pathogenic fungi. C. im´mitis is the etiologic agent of coccidioidomycosis.
Coccidioides
a genus of pathogenic fungi.
Coccidioides immitis
the etiological agent of coccidioidomycosis. A common infection in desert rats whose feces act as the vehicle for spread of the infection.
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