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COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS - TAIWAN ex USA (02): BACKGROUND
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Date: Thu 11 Jun 2009
Source: Source: GIDEON (Global Infectious Disease & Epidemiology
Network) [edited]
<http://www.gideononline.com/blog/2009/06/10/coccidioidomycosis-acquired-by-foreign-travelers/>
The recent case in Taiwan is the latest of over 20 foreign travelers
who have acquired coccidioidomycosis in the Americas during the past
3 decades. One of the modules in GIDEON
(<http://www.GideonOnline.com>) maintains a chronology of all
instances of travel-related infection (such as, rabies,
trypanosomiasis, trichinosis, Lassa fever, gnathostomiasis, and
melioidosis). The following is a list [of cases in foreign travelers
who have acquired coccidioidomycosis in the Americas] that is
abstracted from the program [primary references are available on
request]:
Year* / Country / Cases / Comment
1975* / Finland / 1
1976* / Switzerland / 1
1990 / Israel / 1
1993 / Czech / Republic / 1
1996* / Netherlands / 1
1998* / Hungary / 1
2001 / UK, / Finland, New Zealand / 3 / associated with public event
2001 / Germany / 2 / acquired in Costa Rica
2002 / India / 1 / fatal infection
2003 / Israel / 1
2008* / France / 1
2008* / Japan / 4 / case series
2008* / Poland / 1
2009* / Netherlands / 1
* Year of publication (other cases refer to year of occurrence)
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Communicated by:
Dr Steve Berger
Geographic Medicine
Tel Aviv Medical Center
Israel
<mberger@post.tau.ac.il>
[ProMED-mail thanks Dr Berger for his continuing contributions. - Mod.ML]
[see also:
Coccidioidomycosis - Taiwan ex USA 20090610.2140
2007
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Coccidioidomycosis, prison - USA: (CA) 20071231.4201
Coccidioidomycosis - USA (CA) 20070817.2692
Coccidioidomycosis - USA (AZ) (02): background 20070116.0212
Coccidioidomycosis - USA (AZ): RFI 20070114.0188
2001
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Coccidioidomycosis - Europe ex Costa Rica: alert 20011214.3026
Coccidioidomycosis - Europe ex USA: Alert (02) 20011218.3060
Coccidioidomycosis - Europe ex USA (Calif.): Alert 20011214.3026
Coccidioidomycosis, archeologic site - USA (Utah) 20011115.2815
Coccidioidomycosis - USA (California) 20011009.2460
2000
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Coccidioidomycosis - USA (Arizona) 20000503.0676
1996
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Coccidioidomycosis (valley fever) - USA: Correction 19961216.2084]
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