What is Aspergillosis? Aspergillosis refers to a group of diseases caused by a fungus called Aspergillus. This fungus is widespread in the environment and thrives in places like decaying plant ...

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis is a pulmonary disease occurring in patients with asthma or cystic fibrosis, consequent to a dysregulated immune response to inhaled Aspergillus conidia.

Pulmonary disease was present in 56%, with disseminated infection in 19%. The major risk factors for aspergillosis were bone marrow transplantation (32%) and hematologic malignancy (29%), but ...

The common airborne fungus Aspergillus is unavoidable and causes a broad range of disease including life-threatening aspergillosis, chronic pulmonary aspergillosis, and allergy. Chronic pulmonary ...

It can be used to ‘rule out‘ aspergillosis during a screening strategy in high risk immunocompromised patients, or ‘rule in‘ a diagnosis in patients with suspected disease. The inclusion of an ...

the disease left his lungs weak, and aggravated the problems he had been left with after childhood asthma. Craig, who is 43 and a fast food manager, explains: “I only started to recover when my ...

Millions of people develop invasive and chronic aspergillosis infections around ... classes of antifungal drugs are available to treat disease, and only one class, the azoles, is suitable for ...