Table 3.
Diagnoses of the 10 patients, clinical samples with isolation of Aspergillus fumigatus, and number of different genotypes founda
Patient | Diagnosis | No. of days of admission to unit | Clinical samples |
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Source | No. | No. of different genotypes | Genotype matching environmental genotype | |||
1 | Proven surgical wound IAb | 31 | Surgical wound (n = 8), bone biopsy specimen | 9 | 2 | Yes |
2 | Probable pulmonary IA | 33 | Bronchial aspirate (n = 4), protected brush catheter | 5 | 1 | No |
3 | Pulmonary colonization | 10 | Bronchial aspirate | 3 | 4 | No |
4 | Pulmonary colonization | 18 | Bronchial aspirate | 1 | 2 | No |
5 | Probable pulmonary IA | 12 | Bronchial aspirate | 4 | 3 | Yes |
6 | Pulmonary colonization | 34 | Bronchial aspirate | 1 | 1 | No |
7 | Probable pulmonary IA | 79 | Bronchial aspirate | 3 | 2 | Yes |
8 | Probable pulmonary IA | 5 | Sputum (n = 3), bronchial aspirate, protected brush catheter | 5 | 3 | No |
9 | Proven surgical wound IA | 83 | Surgical wound | 3 | 3 | No |
10 | Surgical wound colonization | 50 | Surgical wound | 1 | 1 | No |
The presence of matches between environmental and clinical genotypes is also shown. Patients with proven/probable invasive aspergillosis are highlighted with shading.
IA, invasive aspergillosis.