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SUBMITTER: Lauruschkat CD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6308942 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lauruschkat Chris D CD Einsele Hermann H Loeffler Juergen J
Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) 20181214 4
Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is the most serious life-threatening infectious complication of intensive remission induction chemotherapy and allogeneic stem cell transplantation in patients with a variety of hematological malignancies. <i>Aspergillus fumigatus</i> is the most commonly isolated species from cases of IA. Despite the various improvements that have been made with preventative strategies and the development of antifungal drugs, there is an urgent need for new therapeutic approaches tha ...[more]