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To: ConservativeMind
When I was accepted into the microbiology department at San Diego State University as a grad student, the department head insisted that everyone get a TB and Coccidiomycosis test. The department head lost a lung to Valley Fever. I did the skin tests. The TB faded as usual, but the coccidiomycosis made a red patch that nearly wrapped around my arm. I was sent for a chest X-ray where the radiographic pattern matched a coccidiomycosis infection that is walled off. TB and Valley Fever present differently. One appears like perfectly punched out circles. The other as amorphous blobs.

Coccidiomycosis

Tuberculosis

49 posted on 03/18/2024 8:47:56 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

Well, it appears you might be fine with disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), so that could help you a bit.


50 posted on 03/18/2024 9:03:02 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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