pulmonary fungal infections
Pulmonary fungal disease encompasses a broad spectrum of infections related to fungal sources. They can particularly affect immunocompromised individuals.
These include:
- pulmonary aspergillosis: pulmonary aspergillus infection considered the most important in immunocompromised individuals
- aspergilloma (saprophytic/non-invasive aspergillosis): the most common form seen radiographically
- allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA)
- invasive aspergillosis
- chronic necrotizing aspergillosis (CNA) (or semi-invasive aspergillosis)
- airway invasive aspergillosis (or bronchopneumonic aspergillosis)
- angioinvasive aspergillosis
- obstructive bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
- pulmonary candidiasis
- pulmonary histoplasmosis
- pulmonary blastomycosis
- pulmonary cryptococcosis
- pulmonary mucormycosis
- pulmonary scedoporium infection
- pulmonary Pneumocystis jirovecii infection (now considered a form of fungus)
Serological markers
(1,3)-β-D-glucan serum concentrations: may have a role in detecting some situations with disseminated infection .
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