Volume 20, Number 6—June 2014
Research
Characteristics of Patients with Mild to Moderate Primary Pulmonary Coccidioidomycosis
Janis E. Blair
, Yu-Hui H. Chang, Meng-Ru Cheng, Laszlo T. Vaszar, Holenarasipur R. Vikram, Robert Orenstein, Shimon Kusne, Stanford Ho, Maria T. Seville, and James M. Parish
, Yu-Hui H. Chang, Meng-Ru Cheng, Laszlo T. Vaszar, Holenarasipur R. Vikram, Robert Orenstein, Shimon Kusne, Stanford Ho, Maria T. Seville, and James M. Parish
Table 3
Signs and symptoms since onset of coccidioidal Illness, among 36 patients with primary pulmonary coccidioidomycosis, Arizona, USA, March 1, 2010–October 31, 2012*
| Symptom* | No. (%) patients |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 4, n = 20† | Week 8, n = 36 | Week 12, n = 35 | Week 16, n = 31 | Week 24, n = 27 | |
| Fatigue‡ | 20 (100) | 33 (92) | 22 (66) | 16 (52) | 13 (48) |
| Fever | 4 (25) | 8 (22) | 3 (9) | 1 (3) | 1 (4) |
| Chills | 7 (35) | 11 (31) | 3 (9) | 1 (3) | 2 (7) |
| Cough | 17 (85) | 30 (83) | 20 (57) | 10 (32) | 9 (33) |
| Night sweats | 12 (60) | 22 (61) | 9 (26) | 8 (26) | 6 (22) |
| Headache | 13 (65) | 14 (39) | 17 (49) | 10 (32) | 7 (26) |
| Chest pain | 11 (55) | 15 (42) | 10 (29) | 4 (13) | 5 (19) |
| Arthralgia | 10 (50) | 16 (44) | 11 (31) | 7 (23) | 7 (26) |
| Rash | 11 (55) | 14 (39) | 10 (29) | 4 (13) | 5 (19) |
*As reported by patients responding directly to a question about presence of the symptom.
†Sixteen patients had not yet enrolled in the study by the fourth week of symptom onset.
‡By direct question for presence of fatigue, not by Fatigue Severity Score.
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