Clinical features and risk factors for viral pneumonia complicated with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in adult patients

Viral pneumonia has recently been defined as a risk factor for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis(IPA).Wauters et al[1]reported that 23%of critically ill patients who were admitted to the intensive care unit(ICU)with swine-origin influenza A(H1N1)viral infection had developed invasive aspergillosis.IPA was diagnosed in 83 of 432(19%)patients who were admitted with influenza;for patients with influenza who were immunocompromised,the incidence of IPA reached up to 32%(38 of 117 patients).