This disease occurs primarily in the desert areas of the southwestern United States and needs a warm arid climate
with alkaline soil to survive.
The mold form of coccidioidomycosis exist in an arid climate,
with alkaline soil, hot summers and low annual rainfall.
Seems to come from water / soil contamination from ore smelting, oil refining, soluble in water but complexes
with alkaline soil.
Not exact matches
If you are concerned about the acidity, mix it
with compost (or lyme) first, but honestly, I have never heard of someone having problems
with chicken poo fertilizer being too acidic when used
with clay (
alkaline)
soil.
Working on
soil samples from a highly
alkaline industrial site in the Peak District, which is not radioactive but does suffer from severe contamination
with highly
alkaline lime kiln wastes, they discovered specialist «extremophile» bacteria that thrive under the
alkaline conditions expected in cement - based radioactive waste.