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Coccidioidomycosis
The first cases of coccidioidomycosis were recognized in the 1890s in central California agricultural workers as a diffuse, progressive, disfiguring skin disease that involved primarily the head and neck and was uniformly fatal. Coccidioidal infection has primarily affected the rapidly growing populations in the US Southwest, especially California and Arizona, its occurrence punctuated with intermittent major epidemics in the past 30 years.
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Pediatric Reference Ranges
Dr. Piero Rinaldo from the Division of Laboratory Genetics at Mayo Clinic discusses Mayo’s approach to establishing pediatric reference values and the residual specimen bank.