The primary risk to the immunocompromised patient arises from nosocomial infections (or hospital acquired infections). A risk to patients additionally can arise from administered medicines. Until the late 1990s the primary risk was generally regarded as arising from bacteria. However, since 2001 the second most common recall for pharmaceutical medicines has been due to fungal contamination. Moulds are ubiquitous in nature and, therefore they pose a risk to pharmaceutical manufacturing operations. Aspergillus spp., Penicillium spp., Trychophyton spp., and other filamentous fungi have, in some cases, caused significant microbial contamination issues in production environments and manufactured products.
With
this important subject, Tim Sandle has written a freely accessible chapter for the book ‘Bacterial and Mycotic Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts: Clinical and Microbiological Aspects’ (edited by Maria Teresa Mascellino), which presents an introduction to
this topic of fungal infections of the immunocompromised person. The book is
published by OMICS Group eBooks.
The
chapter can be viewed as a
downloadable pdf document here.Posted by Tim Sandle
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