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The review of media and techniques that have been developed to date appears to provide more than adequate choice for investigators in endemic areas to perform ecological studies of this organism. The final identification of this organism still lies in the demonstration of itsin vivo morphology.
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Paper read at the Eighth International Congresses for Tropical Medicine and Malaria, September 1968, Teheran (Iran).
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Swatek, F.E., Omieczynski, D.T. Isolation and identification of Coccidioides immitis from natural sources. Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata 41, 155–166 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02051491
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