Today’s case is a 9 month old MN Golden Retriever with anorexia, lethargy, gagging, and occasionalcoughing and vomiting. To go directly to the case, click here. You can also search for the most recent case on the MIRC site.
9 month old MN Golden Retriever
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Sorry to be the geek. Coccidioides–the genus of fungus (kingdom Fungi)–is the causative agent and the disease therefore, is more correctly termed coccidiOIDomycosis (Greene 2006, pg 598). “Coccidiomycosis” implies that the causative agent is a coccidia (kingdom Protista) and suffixed with mycosis doesn’t really make sense. The bigger problem is that searching in MIRC for the correct term brings up this article because of one of the references, but fails to bring up the following case:
http://169.237.67.132:8080/Teaching-File/documents/20070409215224190/MIRCdocument.xml
which only comes up by searching by the incorrect term.
Wikipedia has run into this problem of ambiguous or erroneous search terms, and solves it with disambigation. In fact, if you enter “coccidiomycosis” into Wikipedia, it will disambiguate and redirect you to “Coccidioidomycosis.” Just some fun facts.
Thanks for clarifying that, David. I added both terms to the MIRC case so that either will bring up the case on a search.
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