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Author(s) -
Darshana Wickramasinghe,
Bandula Perera,
Preethi Perera
Publication year - 1951
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1951.tb05125.x
Subject(s) - medicine , citation , information retrieval , library science , world wide web , computer science
Aspergillus is a ubiquitous filamentous fungus that can cause allergy, colonization, or invasion [1]. Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis is a wellrecognised complication in immunocompromised patients. Immunocompetent individuals rarely develop this infection and do so only in the presence of pulmonary and systemic abnormalities such as fibrotic lung disease suppurative infection or when they are on corticosteroids [2,3,4].