Aspergillus species are ubiquitous in the environment. Aspergillosis is acquired by
inhalation of Aspergillus spores. In normal hosts, spore inhalation rarely causes lung …

Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) suffer from chronic lung infection and airway inflammation.
Respiratory failure secondary to chronic or recurrent infection remains the commonest cause …

Bronchopulmonary aspergillosis is usually caused by Aspergillus fumigatus. The six cases
from the Sudan reported here were due to Aspergillus flavus. Three of the patients had …

The isolation of Aspergillus species from respiratory secretions has been regarded as being
of limited usefulness in the antemortem diag nosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. One …

Aspergillus produces diverse pulmonary manifestations, its clinical spectrum extending from
harmless saprophytic colonization to universally lethal disseminated infection. Management …

Experimental studies on rabbits showed that intrapulmonary injection, intrabronchial
nebulization, and intratracheal instillation of Aspergillus fumigatus spores caused only slight …

Aspergillus infection is often difficult to diagnose, and the usefulness of methods of culture
for diagnosis has been questioned. Were viewed all respiratory cultures that yielded any …

Culturing strains from clinical samples is the main method to diagnose invasive pulmonary
aspergillosis. Detecting the galactomannan antigen in serum samples is an auxiliary …

Aspergillus is a mould which may lead to a variety of infectious, allergic diseases depending
on the host9s immune status or pulmonary structure. Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis …

A competitive PCR assay involving the use of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) samples for the
diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) was developed. For this purpose, a 1-kb …