Aerosol Transmission of Aspergillus Fumigatus in Cystic Fibrosis Patients in the Netherlands

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2019 Mar 19

PMID 30882308

Citations 23

Authors

Tobias G P Engel

Ellen Erren

Koen S J Vanden Driessche

Willem J G Melchers

Monique H Reijers

Peter Merkus

Paul E Verweij

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Abstract

We collected sputum samples and cough plates from 15 cystic fibrosis patients in the Netherlands who were colonized with Aspergillus fumigatus; we recovered A. fumigatus of the same genotype in cough aerosols and sputum samples from 2 patients. The belief that transmission of A. fumigatus from cystic fibrosis patients does not occur should be reconsidered.

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