Dangers of desert dust: New diagnostic tool for valley fever

(Arizona State University) Dr. Stephen Albert Johnston, Krupa Navalkar and their colleagues at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute have been investigating valley fever. Navalkar is the lead author of a new study describing a promising strategy known as immunosignaturing, which can provide clinicians with an accurate identification of valley fever, a potentially serious affliction that is often misdiagnosed.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news