Variety and Changeability of Pulmonary Aspergillosis

Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Ostrich

Two Cases of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in an Iranian Family

SUMMARY Aspergillosis is an infectious disease caused by genus aspergillos species. Aspergilli are ab undant in the environment, they Jive in soil as saprophyte deriving nutrient, from dead plants and animal matters. The genus aspergillos in characterized by the formation of distinctive conidiophores giving rise to conidias which can spread by air and are able to reside on the body surface spe...

Pulmonary aspergillosis.

As the population of patients with prolonged neutropenia, those receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplantation or lung transplantation, or those with human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome continues to increase, the rising incidence of pulmonary aspergillosis is unlikely to diminish. Aspergillus species are ubiquitous in nature, have no geographic predilection, an...

Pulmonary sequestration and aspergillosis.

OBJECTIVE Pulmonary sequestration (PS) is an uncommon congenital disease. Symptoms when present are usually secondary to pyogenic infection. Our objective was to draw attention on superimposed fungal infection. METHODS During the last 20 years, we operated upon 19 intralobar PS. Four of six patients operated during the last decade proved to have intralobar PS containing Aspergillus. RESULTS...

Chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis or invasive pulmonary aspergillosis.

Affiliations: Dr. Silvestri is affiliated with Presidio Ospedaliero. Dr. van Saene is affiliated with the University of Liverpool. Dr. de la Cal is affiliated with University Hospital. Dr. De Gaudio is affiliated with the University of Florence. Financial/nonfinancial disclosures: The authors have reported to the ACCP that no significant conflicts of interest exist with any companies/organizati...