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African health sciences · Sep 2022
Aspergillus-specific IgM/IgG antibody serostatus of patients hospitalized with moderate-critical COVID-19 in Uganda.
- Felix Bongomin, Richard Kwizera, Emmanuel Mande, Sharley Melissa Aloyo, Beatrice Achan, Martha Namusobya, Senai Goitom Sereke, Charles Batte, Sarah Kiguli, Joseph Baruch Baluku, Moses L Joloba, and Bruce J Kirenga.
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Gulu University Medical School, Gulu Uganda.
- Afr Health Sci. 2022 Sep 1; 22 (3): 506511506-511.
AbstractInvasive pulmonary aspergillosis is known to complicate the coronavirus diseases-2019 (COVID-19), especially those with critical illness. We investigated the baseline anti-Aspergillus antibody serostatus of patients with moderate-critical COVID-19 hospitalized at 3 COVID-19 Treatment Units in Uganda. All 46 tested patients, mean age 30, and 11% with underlying respiratory disease had a negative serum anti-Aspergillus IgM/IgG antibody immunochromatographic test on day 3 (mean) of symptom onset (range 1-26), but follow up specimens to assess seroconversion were not available.© 2022 Bongomin F et al.
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