Code
01J05608
Duration
01 January 2008 → 15 October 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Medical and health sciences
- Anaesthesiology
- Immunology
- Intensive care and emergency medicine
- Anaesthesiology
- Immunology
- Intensive care and emergency medicine
- Microbiology
- Anaesthesiology
- Immunology
- Intensive care and emergency medicine
Keywords
diagnosis
intensive care
fungal infection
Project description
Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis is a fungal disease with high mortality. Because of difficulties in diagnosis the true incidence of t his disease is unknown. There are no validated diagnostic criteria for intensive care patients. Our reserach group retrospectively developed a diagnostic algorithm with high sensitivity and specificity. The objective is to prospectively validate this diagnostic algorithm.