Glossary for Coccidioidomycosis

• Bone symptoms: Symptoms affecting the body's bones
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Severe chronic fatigue disorder often following infection.
• Coccidiomycosis:
• Conditions involving a pathogen: Medical conditions involving some type of pathogen, such as a virus or bacteria.
• Cough: The noise produced from the sudden expulsion of air from the lungs
• Eosinophilia: This is when there is an abnormal increase in the eosinophils in the blood
• Erythema nodosum: Allergic skin condition usually on the legs
• Fever: Elevation of the body temperature above the normal 37 degrees celsius
• Flu-like conditions: Medical conditions similar to flu, or exhibition flu-like symptoms.
• Flu-like symptoms: Symptoms similar to flu including fever
• Fluconazole -- Teratogenic Agent: There is evidence to indicate that exposure to Fluconazole (an antifungal drug) during pregnancy may have a teratogenic effect on the fetus. A teratogen is a substance that can cause birth defects. The likelihood and severity of defects may be affected by the level of exposure and the stage of pregnancy that the exposure occurred at.
• Fungal infections: Any condition caused by fungus.
• Headache: In medicine a headache or cephalalgia is a symptom of a number of different conditions of the head and sometimes neck. Some of the causes are benign while others are medical emergencies. It ranks among the most common pain complaints
• Itraconazole -- Teratogenic Agent: There is evidence to indicate that exposure to Itraconazole (an antifungal drug) during pregnancy may have a teratogenic effect on the fetus. A teratogen is a substance that can cause birth defects. The likelihood and severity of defects may be affected by the level of exposure and the stage of pregnancy that the exposure occurred at.
• Lung symptoms: Symptoms affecting one or both lungs.
• Meningitis: Dangerous infection of the membranes surrounding the brain.
• Myalgia: Muscle aches and pains
• Myocarditis: Inflammation of the myocardium (muscle walls of the heart)
• No symptoms: The absence of noticable symptoms.
• Pneumoconiosis: A lung disease caused by breathing in air contaminated with particles of dust such as coal, kaolin, asbestos and talc. It is generally an occupation disease where people are exposed to the contaminated air for prolonged periods of time. Generally symptoms stop once the exposure ceases.
• Pneumocystic carinii pneumonia: An infectious disease caused by the fungus called Pneumocystitis carinii which causes pneumonia. It primarily occurs in people with a poor immune system.
• Rash: General name for any type of skin inflammation.
• River Blindness: Skin and eye infection caused by the helminth (worm) 'Onchocerca volvulus', transmitted via fly bites and usually seen only in parts of Africa, the Middle East and South America
• Sarcoidosis: Rare autoimmune disease usually affecting the lungs.
• Skin Cancer: Cancer of the skin; the most common type of cancer.

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