Abstract
Editorial: Advances in Aspergillus fumigatus Pathobiology.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Fungi and Their Interactions, a section of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology
The introduction of steroid therapy in the 1950s, the later development of anti-neoplastic chemotherapy, and the first hematopoietic stem cell transplantations during the following decades revealed the devastating potential of these fungi in patients with severely depressed immune systems
Invasive aspergillosis (IA) has emerged as a major infectious threat and the prevalence and spectrum of the disease has progressed in parallel with advances in medicine and the advent of new therapies with potent immunosuppressive effects
Summary
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Fungi and Their Interactions, a section of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. During the first half of the twentieth century, Aspergillus spp. were considered common laboratory contaminants and only an occasional cause of human diseases with some case reports of chronic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis among farmers, cerebral abscesses, meningitis, and bone infections (Cawley, 1947).
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