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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mycopathologia. 2019 Oct 4;185(1):145–159. doi: 10.1007/s11046-019-00391-2

Figure 5:

Figure 5:

This figure represents our proposed sequence of events that may happen in the Coccidioides spp. reservoir system. A) The fungus is living within the rodent as an endozoan or on the rodent as a dermatophyte. B) The rodent either dies within the burrow or fungus is shed from the exterior of the rodent and then establishes in the soil of burrow. C) A new rodent is inhabited by the fungus and cycle continues. D) Airborne arthroconidia is dispersed from burrow and inhaled by human or another rodent establishing infection.