Hospitalized Patient as Source of Aspergillus fumigatus, 2015

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Baptiste LemaireStéphane Ranque

Abstract

Hospital-acquired aspergillosis is usually associated with environmental contamination. In 2015, continuous monitoring of airborne fungi and multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis identified the source of Aspergillus fumigatus as the airway of a patient. Therefore, patients colonized with Aspergillus spp. should be treated in airborne infection isolation rooms.

References

Dec 26, 2001·Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America·David A PeguesBernard M Kubak
Aug 5, 2008·Applied and Environmental Microbiology·Ilka NossGert Doekes

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BETA
bronchoalveolar
genotyping

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iTOL

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