COVID-19–Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis, March–August 2020
Jon Salmanton-García

, Rosanne Sprute, Jannik Stemler, Michele Bartoletti, Damien Dupont, Maricela Valerio, Carolina Garcia-Vidal, Iker Falces-Romero, Marina Machado, Sofía de la Villa, Maria Schroeder, Irma Hoyo, Frank Hanses, Kennio Ferreira-Paim, Daniele Roberto Giacobbe, Jacques F. Meis, Jean-Pierre Gangneux, Azucena Rodríguez-Guardado, Spinello Antinori, Ertan Sal, Xhorxha Malaj, Danila Seidel, Oliver A. Cornely
1, Philipp Koehler
1, and
The FungiScope European Confederation of Medical Mycology/The International Society for Human and Animal Mycology Working Group2
Author affiliations: University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany (J. Salmanton-García, R. Sprute, J. Stemler, E. Sal, X. Malaj, D. Seidel, O.A. Cornely, P. Koehler); L’Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna Policlinico S. Orsola, Bologna, Italy (M. Bartoletti); Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna (M. Bartoletti); Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (D. Dupont); Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon (D. Dupont); Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon (D. Dupont); Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain (M. Valerio, M. Machado, S. de la Villa); Hospital Clinic, Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain (C. Garcia-Vidal); Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid (I. Falces-Romero); University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany (M. Schroeder); Centro Médico ABC, Mexico City, Mexico (I. Hoyo); University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany (F. Hanses); Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, Brazil (K. Ferreira-Paim); Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico San Martino Polyclinic Hospital, Genoa, Italy (D.R. Giacobbe); Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (J.F. Meis); Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil (J.F. Meis); University of Rennes I, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, Institut de Recherche en Santé, Environnement et Travail, Rennes, France (J.-P. Gangneux); Hospital de Cabueñes, Gijón, Spain (A. Rodríguez-Guardado); Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain (A. Rodríguez-Guardado); University of Milan, Milan, Italy (S. Antinori); German Centre for Infection Research, Cologne (O.A. Cornely)
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Figure 2. Global distribution of the 186 CAPA patients reported in the literature and FungiScope registry, March–August 2020. In total, 39 patients were from France, 36 from Italy, 26 from Spain, 23 from Germany, 14 from the Netherlands, 11 from the United Kingdom, 9 from Pakistan, 8 from Belgium, 6 from Mexico, 3 from Brazil, 3 from Switzerland, 2 from Denmark, 2 from Qatar, 1 from Argentina, 1 from Australia, 1 from Austria, and 1 from Ireland (Appendix Table 8). CAPA, COVID-19–associated pulmonary aspergillosis; COVID-19, coronavirus disease.
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