Table 1 Overall number of Aspergillus species isolated according to clinical settings and samples
Clinical setting | N° of Isolates (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A. fumigatus | A. niger | A. flavus | A. terreus | Othersa | Overall | |
Internal Medicine | 169 (50.7%) | 58 (17.4%) | 58 (17.4%) | 36 (10.8%) | 12 (3.6%) | 333 |
Surgery | 35 (39.8%) | 25 (28.4%) | 16 (18.2%) | 4 (4%) | 8 (9%) | 88 |
Intensive care | 123 (38.2%) | 66 (20.5%) | 66 (20.5%) | 54 (16.7%) | 13 (4%) | 322 |
Outpatient clinic | 170 (44.4%) | 102 (26.6%) | 59 (15.4%) | 25 (6.5%) | 27 (7%) | 383 |
Sputum | 254 (48.7%) | 120 (23%) | 82 (15.7%) | 35 (6.7%) | 30 (5.7%) | 521 |
BAL | 186 (41.5%) | 87 (19.4%) | 80 (17.9%) | 76 (16.9%) | 19 (4.2%) | 448 |
Wound/biopsy | 29 (50.9%) | 14 (24.6%) | 7 (12.3%) | 5 (8.8%) | 2 (3.5%) | 57 |
Ear swab | 6 (15.4%) | 16 (41%) | 14 (35.9%) | 1 (2.6%) | 2 (5.1%) | 39 |
Nasal swab | 10 (23.9%) | 13 (30.9%) | 12 (28.6%) | 2 (4.7%) | 5 (11.9%) | 42 |
Sinus discharge | 1 (33.3%) | 1 (33.3%) | 1 (33.3%) | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pleural fluid | 10 (71.4%) | 0 | 2 (14.3%) | 0 | 2 (14,3%) | 14 |
CSF | 0 | 0 | 1 (100%) | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Eye swab | 1 (100%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
total | 497 (44.1%) | 251 (22.3%) | 199 (17.7%) | 119 (10.6%) | 60 (5,3%) | 1126 |