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Detection of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Haematological Malignancy Patients by using Lateral-flow Technology
Published on: March 22, 2012
Disseminated enteroinvasive aspergillosis in a critically ill patient without severe immunocompromise
Jennifer H Fieber1, Jórunn Atladóttir2, Daniel G Solomon2
1Yale University School of Medicine MD Candidate, New Haven, CT, USA jennifer.fieber@yale.edu.
Abstract:
Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a rapidly progressive and often fatal infectious disease described classically in patients who are highly immunocompromised. However, there has been increasing evidence that IA may affect critically ill patients without traditional risk factors. We present a case of a 47-year-old man without conventional risk factors for IA who presented with impending sepsis and proceeded to have a complicated hospital course with a postmortem diagnosis of invasive gastrointestinal aspergillosis of the small bowel.
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