COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA): how big a problem is it?

Affiliations

¹ AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier La Pitié-Salpêtrière, Service de Parasitologie Mycologie, Paris, France. Electronic address: arnaud.fekkar@aphp.fr.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
⁵ Infectious Diseases Service and Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital of Lausanne and Lausanne University, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Arnaud Fekkar et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2021 Sep.

. 2021 Sep;27(9):1376-1378.

doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2021.06.025. Epub 2021 Jun 27.

¹ AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier La Pitié-Salpêtrière, Service de Parasitologie Mycologie, Paris, France. Electronic address: arnaud.fekkar@aphp.fr.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
⁵ Infectious Diseases Service and Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital of Lausanne and Lausanne University, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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