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Fungi may be circumscribed by the following set of characteristics
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Abstract
Mycoses are life-threatening opportunistic infections and
have emerged as a major cause of morbidity and mortality in
critically ill patients.
The development of pulmonary mycosis requires host’s
predisposing factors such as allergic status (asthma), airways
diseases (bronchial dilatation, cystic fibrosis), chronic lung cavities
(tuberculosis) or immune deficiency.
Hospitalized patients, especially those in intensive care units
(ICUs), are often inappropriately placed on broad-spectrum
antibiotic drugs because fungal diseases involving Candida spp. are
not routinely diagnosed.
Diagnosis of fungal infection is difficult and challenging as
clinical manifestations are non-specific, the lack of availability and
underuse of non-culture fungal diagnostics results in
overprescribing, prescription of unduly long courses of antibacterial
agents, and excess empirical use of antifungal agents and leaves
many millions of patients with undiagnosed fungal infections.
Thus, it is clearly now that it is urgent to search for an
alternative diagnostic approach that may be specific, sensitive and
quick.
The detection of galactomannan (GM) antigen and detection
of fungal DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method have.