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Background
Blastomycosis is an endemic fungal infection that causes pulmonary and systemic disease. It can occur irrespective of the patient's immune status. The risk factors associated with the severity of the disease are not well studied.
Methods
This is a retrospective study of patients admitted with blastomycosis at the University of Kentucky Hospital from 2004 to 2019. Logistic regression...
Background
Antifungal treatment duration and changes for invasive mould infections (IMI) have been poorly described.
Methods
We performed a 10‐year cohort study of adult (≥18‐year‐old) allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplant recipients with proven/probable IMI to describe the duration and changes of antifungal treatment. All‐cause‐12‐week mortality was described.
Results
Sixty‐one patients...
Background
Isavuconazole, administered as isavuconazonium sulfate (ISAVUSULF), is a broad‐spectrum triazole agent for the treatment of invasive fungal disease. In phase 3 studies, ISAVUSULF showed comparable efficacy to voriconazole and amphotericin B for the treatment of invasive aspergillosis (IA) and invasive mucormycosis (IM), respectively.
Objectives
The objective of this study is to determine...
Background
An increasing number of cases of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) complicating influenza have been described. We performed a meta‐analysis to estimate the incidence, risk factors and outcomes of IPA in patients with influenza.
Methods
A systematic search was conducted in the PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane Library databases from their inception to 31 August 2021 for eligible studies...
Background
Several studies in immunocompromised patients, such as those with HIV infection, undergoing cancer chemotherapy or organ transplant, have led to the development of guidelines on the use of prophylaxis to prevent Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP), in these specific conditions. Instead, since the association between PJP and acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is not clearly defined, the role...
Background
Psoriasis patients are more frequently colonised with Candida species. The correlation between fungal colonisation and clinical severity is unclear, but may exacerbate psoriasis and the impact of antipsoriatic therapies on the prevalence of Candida is unknown.
Objectives
To examine the prevalence of C species in psoriasis patients compared to an age‐ and sex‐matched control population,...
Background
Members of the Nannizzia gypsea complex are globally the most common geophilic dermatophytes which cause infection in animals and human. Although the susceptibility patterns of anthropophilic or zoophilic dermatophyte species to antifungal agents are well documented, the effectiveness of such drugs against geophilic species have rarely been explored.
Objectives
This study was aimed to...
Objectives
The relevance of candidemia has increased over the last decades due to higher incidence rates in an ageing society. Studies on amphotericin B and fluconazole have shown high attributable mortality rates of 38% and 49% in the United States. Incidence rates and locational factors might have an impact on the mortality rates at the University Hospital of Cologne (UHC), Germany.
Methods
We...
Candida meningitis is a rare life‐threatening yeast infection mostly involving immunocompromised or paediatric patients undergoing neurosurgical procedures or shunt placement. Due to difficulties in diagnosis because of diverse clinical manifestations, the number of patients affected is most likely underestimated. Therefore, the correct diagnosis may be delayed for months, and accurate species identification...
Antifungal susceptibility testing is an essential tool for guiding antifungal therapy. Reference methods are complex and usually only available in specialised laboratories. We have designed an expanded agar‐based screening method for the detection of azole‐resistant Aspergillus fumigatus isolates. Normally, identification of resistance mechanisms is obtained only after sequencing the cyp51A gene and...
Objectives
Geotrichum spp can be responsible for severe infections in immunocompromised patients. We aim to describe Geotrichum‐related infections in the ICU and to assess risk factors of mortality.
Methods
Retrospective multicentre study, conducted in 14 French ICUs between 2002 and 2018, including critically ill adult patients with proven or probable infection related to Geotrichum species. Data...
Patients with acute and chronic liver impairment are susceptible to invasive fungal infections such as candidemia and invasive pulmonary aspergillosis as a result of cirrhosis‐associated immune dysfunction, humoral immunodeficiency, cell‐mediated dysfunction and systemic inflammation. Besides classical risk factors for invasive fungal infection, acute‐on‐chronic liver failure, corticosteroid use,...
Background
In patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukaemia (R/R AML) who received salvage chemotherapy, limited and not updated studies explored the incidence of invasive aspergillosis (IA) and the role of antifungal prophylaxis (AP). The aims of this multicentre retrospective ‘SEIFEM 2016‐B’ study were as follows: (1) to evaluate the current rate and the outcome of proven/probable IA...
Background
Aspergillus spp. is identified morphologically without antifungal susceptibility tests (ASTs) in most clinical laboratories. The aim of this study was to examine the clinical impact of the morphological identification of Aspergillus spp. to ensure the adequate clinical management of Aspergillus infections.
Patients/Methods
Aspergillus isolates (n = 126) from distinct antifungal treatment‐naïve...
Background
Since the first report of Candida auris in 2016, the Colombian Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS) has implemented a national surveillance of the emerging multidrug‐resistant fungus.
Objectives
This report summarises the findings of this laboratory‐based surveillance from March 2016 to December 2020.
Results
A total of 1720 C. auris cases were identified, including 393 (23%) colonisation...
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