Hospitalized Patient as Source of Aspergillus fumigatus, 2015

Hospitalized Patient as Source of Aspergillus fumigatus, 2015

Hospital-acquired aspergillosis is usually associated with environmental contamination. In 2015, continuous monitoring of airborne fungi and multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis identified the source of Aspergillus fumigatus as the airway of a patient. Therefore, patients colonized with...

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Main Authors: Baptiste Lemaire, Anne-Cécile Normand, Jean-Marie Forel, Nadim Cassir, Renaud Piarroux, Stéphane Ranque
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018-08-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Aspergillus fumigatus
intensive care units
airborne contamination
France
fungi
hospital infections
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/8/17-1865_article

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