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n. - An infection of the lungs and skin characterized by excessive sputum and nodules.

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  • A lung biopsy showed it was not cancer, rather it was a common fungal illness, Valley Fever, also called coccidiomycosis.
  • Coccidiosis or coccidiomycosis is also referred to as San Joaquin Valley fever or Valley fever.
  • Those with AIDS are especially prone to pulmonary infections with coccidiomycosis, involvement of the skin and disseminated, or widely spread, disease.
  • While in Arizona, he’d contracted a pulmonary fungal infection, coccidiomycosis, not uncommon in the desert.
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