Hospitalized Patient as Source of Aspergillus fumigatus, 2015

Abstract

Hospital-acquired aspergillosis is usually associated with environmental contamination. In 2015, continuous monitoring of airborne fungi and multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis identified the source of Aspergillus fumigatus as the airway of a patient. Therefore, patients colonized with Aspergillus spp. should be treated in airborne infection isolation rooms.

Keywords

• Aspergillus fumigatus
• intensive care units
• airborne contamination
• France
• fungi
• hospital infections