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Invasive Aspergillus (IA) - Diagnosis and Management
Aspergillus is ubiquitous in nature. Most invasive infections are caused
Diagnosis and Management ... presentations: • Pulmonary ... AspGM can be also positive ... Penicillium • BDG is associated ... #treatment #fungal
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Hypercoagulable (APLAS) Microbiology ... Blood cultures are positive ... Tropheryma Whipplei • Aspergillus ... Cerebral > Splenic, pulmonary ... nodes • Roth’s spots
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Inhalation of spores ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... ASPERGILLOSIS • Aspergillus ... infection have positive ... #Diagnosis #Management