By Ethan Covey
Cases of valley fever appear to be rising in the United States, but limited testing likely precludes accurate assessment of the overall incidence, according to researchers at Kaiser Permanente.
The researchers looked at data from 33,756 patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) enrolled in the Kaiser Permanente Southern California health care system in 2011 (Emerg Infect Dis 2018;24[4]:779-781).
Among those patients, only 6% were tested for coccidioides—the fungal