Successful treatment of Aspergillus fungaemia in two children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

J Infect

Department of Paediatric Oncology, The Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Sutton, Surrey, UK.

Published: May 1998

Aspergillus species can cause life-threatening infection in immunocompromised children. Pulmonary infections are the most common, and are usually acquired through inhalations of aspergillus spores in unfiltered air. Some patients acquire invasive aspergillus infection from endogenous spread of colonized para-nasal sinuses.

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