%0 Journal Article %T Updated practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of aspergillosis: challenges and opportunities %A Alevizakos, Michail %A Farmakiotis, Dimitrios %A Mylonakis, Eleftherios %J Journal of Thoracic Disease %D 2016 %B 2016 %9 %! Updated practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of aspergillosis: challenges and opportunities %K %X The Aspergillus genus of fungi is associated with a broad range of diseases, from severe invasive infections in immunocompromised hosts, to semi-invasive, to chronic disease. Invasive aspergillosis in particular constitutes the most common fungal infection among hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients and the second-most common fungal infection among solid organ transplant recipients (1), with associated mortality rates that exceed 50% (1,2). The new IDSA guidelines (3) provide a valuable tool concerning prevention, diagnosis and management of these diseases, building upon the previous version (4), with the incorporation of new clinical data. Thus, they provide a useful, up-to-date scaffold to assist in clinical decision-making. %U https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/11148 %V 8 %N 12 %P E1767-E1770 %@ 2077-6624