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doi: 10.1086/338025.
Epub 2001 Dec 19.
Cluster of cases of invasive aspergillosis in a transplant intensive care unit: evidence of person-to-person airborne transmission
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Cluster of cases of invasive aspergillosis in a transplant intensive care unit: evidence of person-to-person airborne transmission
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Abstract
In October 1998, a patient developed deep surgical-site and organ-space infection with Aspergillus fumigatus 11 days after undergoing liver retransplantation; subsequently, 2 additional patients in the transplant intensive care unit had invasive pulmonary infection with A. fumigatus diagnosed. It was determined that debriding and dressing wounds infected with Aspergillus species may result in aerosolization of spores and airborne person-to-person transmission.
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Clusters of cases of invasive aspergillosis in transplant units: nosocomial spread or enhanced virulence?Clin Infect Dis. 2002 Sep 15;35(6):776. doi: 10.1086/342324. Clin Infect Dis. 2002. PMID: 12203182 No abstract available.
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