Aspergillosis diagnosis

Denning, D. (1996) Aspergillosis diagnosis and treatment. Int J Antimicrob Agents, 6,161-168. 

Segal BH, Walsh TJ. Current approaches to diagnosis and treatment of invasive aspergillosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006 173 707-717. 

Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Infectious bronchitis, infectious laryngo-tracheitis, Newcastle disease, mycoplasmosis, duck viral enteritis, infectious coryza, ornithobacteriosis, turkey coryza, fowl cholera, aspergillosis, heat exhaustion, and severe water deprivation. 

Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, aspergillosis, pneumonia, respiratory distress syndrome, mediastinal cysts, mycoplasma infections, Pancoast syndrome, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis, lung abscess, lung cancer, lymphoma. 

Andreas S., Heindl, S., Wattky, C., Moller, K. and Ruchel, R. (2000) Diagnosis of pulmonary aspergillosis using optical brighteners. European Respiratory Journal 15,407. 

Patterson R, Greenberger PA, Roberts M The diagnosis of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis in Patterson R, Greenberger PA (eds) Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis. Providence, Oceanside Publications, 1995, pp 1—3. 

Crameri R, Hemmann S, Ismail C, Menz G, Blaser K Disease-specific recombinant allergens for the diagnosis of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Int Irrrmunol 1998 10 1211—1216. 

Rosenberg M, Patterson R, Mintzer R, Cooper BJ, Roberts M, Harris KE Clinical and immunological criteria for the diagnosis of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Ann Intern Med 1977 86 405-414. 

Serology The detection of specific antibodies does not play any role in the diagnosis of superficial or cutaneous mycoses, but has its place in systemic candidiasis, aspergillosis and especially cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis and coccidioidomycosis. 

Daly, P. Kavanagh, K. (2001) Pulmonary Aspergillosis clinical presentation, diagnosis and therapy. Br J Biomed Sci, 58,197-205. 

Hope WW, Walsh TJ, Denning DW. Laboratory diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis. Lancet Infect Dis. 2005 5 609-622. 

Denning DW. Diagnosis and management of invasive aspergillosis. In Remington JS, Swartz M, eds. Current Clinical Topics in Infectious Disease. Boston Blackwell Science, 1996 16 277-299. 

Walsh TJ, Dixon DM. Nosocomial aspergillosis environmental microbiology, hospital epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment. Eur J Epidemiol 1989 5 131-142. 

The lEP test was considered by Pepys and generally by several other biologists as a less sensitive but more discriminating method than the DD test. This technique is widely used in routine diagnosis of several fungal diseases (aspergillosis, candidiasis) and often used in BBL diagnosis (Pepys 1994). 

Other filamentous fungi and Candida sp. infection are much less frequent than aspergillosis, although they have also to be taken into account in the differential diagnosis of patients with suspected fungal infection. 

The definitive diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis is traditionally based on the histologic evidence of tissue invasion by branched septate hy-phae. In recent years it has been shown that Aspergillus infection can result in a broad range of airway complications (Gotway et al. 2002 Franquet et al. 2004). 

PCR Aspergillus DNA in serum has been used for the detection of A. fumi-gatus antigen in sera for the diagnosis of pulmonary aspergillosis and appears to have the highest sensitivity (92). 

Greenberger PA. Diagnosis and management of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Allergy Proc 1994 15 335-339. 

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