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Invasive aspergillosis in patients with hematologic malignancies: incidence and description of 127 cases enrolled in a single institution prospective survey from 2004 to 2009

Haematologica, 2011
Background The study objectives were: 1) to report on invasive aspergillosis patients in a hematology department; and 2) to estimate its incidence according to the hematologic diagnosis.Design and Methods A prospective survey of invasive aspergillosis ...
Marie-Christine Nicolle, Thomas Bénet, Anne Thiebaut, Anne-Lise Bienvenu, Nicolas Voirin, Antoine Duclos, Mohamad Sobh, Giovanna Cannas, Xavier Thomas, Frank-Emmanuel Nicolini, Frédérique De Monbrison, Marie-Antoinette Piens, Stéphane Picot, Mauricette Michallet, Philippe Vanhems   +14 more
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Overcoming resistance of Candida albicans using photodynamic inactivation

Photochemistry and Photobiology, EarlyView.
The rising resistance of Candida albicans to conventional antifungals, like Amphotericin B (AmB), highlights the need for alternative treatments. This study evaluated the antifungal effectiveness of combining AmB with photodynamic inactivation (PDI) using curcumin as a photosensitizer.
Gabriela Gomes Guimarães, Jennifer Soares, Anna Luiza Resende, Isabella Gonçalves, Kate Blanco, Vanderlei Bagnato   +5 more
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An Economic Evaluation of Voriconazole versus Amphotericin B for the Treatment of Invasive Aspergillosis in Canada

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2004
BACKGROUND: Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a serious fungal infection that affects immunocompromised patients. The Global Comparative Aspergillosis study demonstrated that voriconazole, a new broad-spectrum triazole, had better responses and improved ...
Coleman Rotstein, Michel Laverdière, Anne Marciniak, Farzad Ali   +3 more
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Fungal infections after liver transplantation [PDF]

, 1988
The risk factors for development of invasive fungal infections after liver transplantation were (1) longer duration of treatment with nonprophylactic IV antibiotics, (2) longer cumulative surgical time and a higher number of laparotomies, (3) an ...
Dummer, JS, Esquivel, C, Ho, M, Kusne, S, Makowka, L, Singh, N, Starzl, TE   +6 more
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A MIQE-Compliant Real-Time PCR Assay for Aspergillus Detection [PDF]

, 2012
PMCID: PMC3393739This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
AH Groll, AS Pham, B De Pauw, C Costa, C Girmenia, C Halliday, C Mengoli, Carol A. Munro, DA Tsitsikas, David F. Bibby, DS Perlin, DW Denning, Gemma L. Johnson, HA Torres, J Faber, J Loeffler, J Loeffler, JB Reitsma, JE Galagan, JR Perfect, M Kami, M Sanguinetti, M Subira, M Zuker, MJ Espy, ML Herrera, PD Khot, PD Khot, PL White, PL White, PL White, R Bu, S Ascioglu, S Challier, SA Bustin, SA Bustin, SA Bustin, SA Bustin, SA Bustin, Samir G. Agrawal, SM Duval, Stephen A. Bustin, Stephenie Wong, T Nolan, TF Patterson, Y Zhao, Y Zhao   +46 more
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The Changing Epidemiology of Breakthrough Invasive Fungal Disease in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients in the Era of Modified‐Release Posaconazole Prophylaxis

Transplant Infectious Disease, EarlyView.
This single‐center retrospective cohort study on 300 allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients from January 2017 to May 2020, in which posaconazole modified release was the most common primary antifungal prophylaxis, demonstrated a breakthrough invasive fungal disease (bIFD) rate of 9%, with associated significant all‐cause mortality at ...
Shio Yen Tio, Chin Fen Neoh, David Ritchie, Lynette Chee, David C. M. Kong, Leon J. Worth, Michelle K. Yong, Monica A. Slavin   +7 more
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Fruiting Bodies of Aspergillus in a Cavitary Lung Mass: A Rare Finding on Fine Needle Aspiration

Diagnostic Cytopathology, Volume 53, Issue 11, Page 576-579, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) guided fine needle aspiration is a modality for diagnosing lung nodules as well as fungal organisms. One of the most frequently isolated fungal organisms from immunocompromised patients or immunocompetent patients with severe COPD is Aspergillus spp., which is characterized by septate hyphae with progressive ...
Maria Luisa C. Policarpio‐Nicolas, Jacob Rattin, Sanjay Mukhopadhyay   +2 more
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Clinical intestinal transplantation: New perspectives and immunologic considerations [PDF]

, 1998
Background: Although tacrolimus-based immunosuppression has made intestinal transplantation feasible, the risk of the requisite chronic high- dose treatment has inhibited the widespread use of these procedures.
Abu-Elmagd, K, Bueno, J, Demetris, J, Fawzy, AT, Fung, JJ, Furukawa, H, Irish, W, Lee, R, McMichael, J, Murase, N, Rakela, J, Rao, A, Reyes, J, Starzl, TE, Todo, S   +14 more
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Aspergillus spondylodiscitis in a patient with liver cirrhosis and diabetes mellitus

Zdravniški Vestnik, 2014
Aspergillus osteomyelitis is a rare manifestation of invasive aspergillosis which accounts for 1.8% to 5.6% of all invasive aspergillosis forms. As other forms of invasive aspergillosis, it predominantly occurs in immunosupressed patients with well ...
Tereza Rojko, Matevž Gorenšek, Julija Germ, Stanka Lotrič-Furlan, Bojana Beović   +4 more
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Orbital Aspergillosis: Voriconazole – The New Standard Treatment

Case Reports in Ophthalmology, 2012
Background/Aim: To describe a case of invasive orbital aspergillosis and evaluate treatments and outcomes. Methods: A case report and review of orbital aspergillosis treatment with voriconazole in the English language literature. Conclusion: Amphotericin
Derek H. Ohlstein, Claudia Hooten, Javier Perez, Charles L. Clark III, Hazem Samy   +4 more
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