Talk:Aspergillosis

dogs?

what does aspergillosis have to do with dogs? ive had it, and i know birds can get it but even the article says nothing about the susceptibility of dogs. badmachine (talk) 08:13, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Aspergillosis can be lethal in dogs. Most at risk are the long nosed breeds. It infects the nasal passages and causes the outside of the nose to necrotise. (IE the usually wet, outside part goes dry and is merely a dead shell encasing the disease.) The inside of the nose goes red and swollen and can protrude slightly outwards. Very hard to cure at this stage and if untreated the disease can spread to the brain etc.. Dog needs to be aneathetized and the infected parts packed in antifungal ointment for some hours (lamisil is sometimes used here). This process needs to be repeated several times. Ketoconazole and itraconozole tablets havve been used but even after months of treatment have sometimes had little effect. It is also hard to get diagnosis from vets. Biopsy can lead to mistakes and have the vet declare that they dont know the cause. Few vets can recognise this disease from first presentation. One tip I can give you to point you the way to diagnosis is to apply some , off the counter, antifungal to the outside of the nose (Canesten cream which is used for Thrush and althletes foot is good and will do absolutely no harm.). This causes the thin, necrotised, outside of the nose to turn to slime and shed. (dont be alarmed at this it shows the disease is being attacked). It is critical to survival that this disease is dealt with as quickly as possible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.22.171.60 (talk) 07:52, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Incubation period of hours

Is it possible that the onset of Aspergillosis symptoms, including necrosis, will be withing hours of infection? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.80.130.234 (talk) 21:38, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Revamp

Over coming weeks I'm going to attempt to revamp and expand this article. I might potentially split it into subtypes i.e. ABPA, invasive, sub-acute (chronic necrotizing) etc. There's a lot of good literature around to expand this quite significantly. Any help is appreciated! --—Cyclonenim | Chat  10:15, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

I propose we structure under the following terminologies, as these are the most clear descriptive terms used in literature:

Types of infection

-Colonisation

--Asymptomatic colonisation

--Superficial colonisation

-Cutaneous infection (eg otitis externa)

-Allergic

--Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA)

--Severe asthma and fungal sensitisation (SAFS)

--Fungal sinusitis

-Chronic

--Aspergilloma

--Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA)

--Chronic cavitary pulmonary aspergillosis (CCPA)

--Semi-invasive

-Invasive aspergillosis

--Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis

--Tracheobronchitis

--Acute invasive rhinosinusitis

--Cerebral aspergillosis

--Endocarditis

Other rare infections (e.g. pleural)

--—Cyclonenim | Chat  11:20, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Cyclonenim, I have several sources (textbooks) which discuss asperigllosis of the paranasal sinuses and oropharynx. If you wish I can generate some content on this below. Lesion (talk) 15:38, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Sure, that'd be great. These would come under invasive aspergillosis; I am currently undecided on whether to split the article into the separate subtypes or not. Maybe we should collate everything as much as possible here, and move later if necessary? --—Cyclonenim | Chat  10:12, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

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Gardening fungicides and resistance to antifungals

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/when-tulips-kill/574489/ (compounds used to protect tulip cultivation increasing resistance and thereby increasing difficulty of treating aspergillosis)

Construction & renovation work in hospitals

Construction & renovation activities in hospitals may cause fungal outbreaks and especially of Aspergillus spp. The risk is increased on fragile patients such as the immunocompromised. Reference: https://sf2h.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/SF2H-SFMM_fungal-infections-guidelines-2011.pdf 84.205.241.2 (talk) 21:40, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

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