By Marie Rosenthal, MS
Delays in the diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis lead to unnecessary testing, medication and other health care services that cost almost $3 million in Arizona between 2011 and 2014, according to two studies presented at the 2018 annual meeting of the Coccidioidomycosis Study Group in Flagstaff, Ariz.
Valley fever is a fungal disease that is endemic in the Southwest, but most cases occur in Arizona, where Coccidioides spores cause one-third of all types of pneumonia in the