To the Editor:A multicenter retrospective survey in China shows that the most common pulmonary fungal disease is pulmonary aspergillosis.[1]The diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis(IPA)remains challenging bec...To the Editor:A multicenter retrospective survey in China shows that the most common pulmonary fungal disease is pulmonary aspergillosis.[1]The diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis(IPA)remains challenging because of the high false-negative and false-positive rate of galactomannan(GM)test.Domestic research reports that the IPA misdiagnosis rate can be as high as 73%.Besides,GM is time consuming,making the diagnosis delayed.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81873400)the Key Project of Jiangsu Commission of Health(No.K2019004)the“333 project”of Jiangsu Province(No.BRA2019339).
文摘To the Editor:A multicenter retrospective survey in China shows that the most common pulmonary fungal disease is pulmonary aspergillosis.[1]The diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis(IPA)remains challenging because of the high false-negative and false-positive rate of galactomannan(GM)test.Domestic research reports that the IPA misdiagnosis rate can be as high as 73%.Besides,GM is time consuming,making the diagnosis delayed.
