COVID-19-associated fungal infections

M Hoenigl, D Seidel, R Sprute, C Cunha… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated invasive fungal infections are an
important complication in a substantial number of critically ill, hospitalized patients with …

Prevalence of COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis: critical review and conclusions

M Egger, L Bussini, M Hoenigl, M Bartoletti - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
First reports of cases and case series of COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis
(CAPA) emerged during the first months of the pandemic. Prevalence rates varied widely …

Metagenomic next-generation sequencing of plasma for diagnosis of COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis

M Hoenigl, M Egger, J Price, R Krause… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Timely diagnosis remains an unmet need in non-neutropenic patients at risk for
aspergillosis, including those with COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) …

A Pathology-based Case Series of Influenza-and COVID-19–associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis: The Proof Is in the Tissue

L Vanderbeke, C Jacobs, S Feys… - American Journal of …, 2023 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis has emerged as a frequent coinfection in
severe coronavirus disease (COVID-19), similarly to influenza, yet the clinical invasiveness …

Fungal pathogens and COVID-19

A Singh, A Kaur, A Chowdhary - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the complications of secondary fungal infections that
occurred globally in severe cases of coronavirus disease managed in the intensive care …

Point-of-care testing for viral-associated pulmonary aspergillosis

R Aerts, B Autier, M Gornicec, J Prattes… - Expert Review of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Over the last years, severe respiratory viral infections, particularly those caused
by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the influenza virus …

[HTML][HTML] Incidence, risk factors and pre-emptive screening for COVID-19 associated pulmonary aspergillosis in an era of immunomodulant therapy

R van Grootveld, MT van der Beek, NAF Janssen… - Journal of Critical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose COVID-19 associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) is associated with increased
morbidity and mortality in ICU patients. We investigated the incidence of, risk factors for and …

Influenza-associated and COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis in critically ill patients

S Feys, A Carvalho, CJ Clancy… - The Lancet …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (IAPA) and COVID-19-associated pulmonary
aspergillosis (CAPA) are increasingly recognised as important complications in patients …

A multiplex PCR and DNA-sequencing workflow on serum for the diagnosis and species identification for invasive aspergillosis and mucormycosis

S Imbert, L Portejoie, E Pfister, B Tauzin… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
There has been significant increase in the use of molecular tools for the diagnosis of
invasive aspergillosis (IA) and mucormycosis. However, their range of detection may be too …

[HTML][HTML] The battle against fungi: lessons in antifungal stewardship from COVID 19 times

SS Kanj, SF Haddad, JF Meis, PE Verweij… - International journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the detrimental effect of secondary pathogens in
patients with a primary viral insult. In addition to superinfections with bacterial pathogens …