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Background
Methods
Legal and ethical aspects
Data collection
Confidentiality
Procedures
References
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Objectives
To collect a large series of ICU patients with either Aspergillus colonization or invasive disease, in order to (1) investigate the epidemiology of invasive aspergillosis in ICU patients, and (2) to validate the diagnostic algorithm that discriminates colonization from invasive disease as proposed by Vandewoude et al.
Investigators
Principal investigators
- S. Blot, Intensive Care Dept., Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
- K. Vandewoude, Intensive Care Dept., Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
- D. Vogelaers, Dept. of Infectious Diseases, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
- J. Rello, Dept. of Crit Care, University Hospital Joan XXIII, Tarragona, Spain
- G. Dimopoulos, Dept. of Crit Care , University Hospital “Atticon”, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- J.A. Paiva, Dept. of Intensive Care, Hospital de S. Joao, Porto, Portugal
- B. Misset, Intensive Care Unit, Fondation Hopital Saint-Joseph, Paris, France
Other investigators
Physicians participating in the survey
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