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Diagnosis of fungal infections
1Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Universität Giessen, Germany.
Mycoses
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
Fungal infections become more and more important due to their increasing incidence in immunocompromised patients. In these patients opportunistic fungi (Candida, Aspergillus, Cryptococcus) can cause life-threatening infections. Diagnosis of fungal infections is difficult. Clinical symptoms are uncharacteristic, and laboratory diagnosis is confronted with many problems and requires expert interpretation.