Invasive Fungal Disease Complicating Coronavirus Disease 2019: When It Rains, It Spores

Martin Hoenigl^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.
² Clinical and Translational Fungal Working Group, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
³ Section of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine and Division of Pulmonology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

Editorial

Martin Hoenigl. Clin Infect Dis. 2021.

. 2021 Oct 5;73(7):e1645-e1648.

doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1342.

Martin Hoenigl^{1

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¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.
² Clinical and Translational Fungal Working Group, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
³ Section of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine and Division of Pulmonology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-associated pulmonary aspergillosis; Aspergillus; Candida; galactomannan; β-D-glucan.

Comment on

A National Strategy to Diagnose Coronavirus Disease 2019-Associated Invasive Fungal Disease in the Intensive Care Unit.
White PL, Dhillon R, Cordey A, Hughes H, Faggian F, Soni S, Pandey M, Whitaker H, May A, Morgan M, Wise MP, Healy B, Blyth I, Price JS, Vale L, Posso R, Kronda J, Blackwood A, Rafferty H, Moffitt A, Tsitsopoulou A, Gaur S, Holmes T, Backx M. White PL, et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Oct 5;73(7):e1634-e1644. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1298. Clin Infect Dis. 2021. PMID: 32860682 Free PMC article.

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