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Coccidioidomycosis in Mexico and Central America

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The territory comprising Mexico and Central America covers 945,000 square miles and contains 58 million inhabitants. Eighty percent of this area and population corresponds to Mexico. There are great similarities and marked differences among the seven countries integrating this area. A brief description of the historical, biological and medical aspects of the endemic areas of coccidioidomycosis in this region will be presented here.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, School of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of San Carlos, Guatemala, Guatemala

    Rubén P. Mayorga

  2. Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, School of Medicine, University of Nicaragua, León, Nicaragua

    Hernán Espinoza

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Paper read at the Eighth International Congresses for Tropical Medicine and Malaria, September 1968, Teheran (Iran).

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Mayorga, R.P., Espinoza, H. Coccidioidomycosis in Mexico and Central America. Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata 41, 13–23 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02051480

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