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AspICU - An international, multicentre epidemiologic study on Aspergillus species in intensive care unit patients with the objective to identify specific risk factors and the validation of a diagnostic algorithm to discriminate Aspergillus colonization
Code
01J05608
Duration
01 January 2008 → 15 October 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • 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.