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Journal : Jurnal Respirologi Indonesia

Pulmonary Mycoses in Indonesia: Current Situations and Future Challenges Anna Rozaliyani; Anwar Jusuf; Priyanti ZS; Erlina Burhan; Diah Handayani; Henie Widowati; Satria Pratama; Findra Setianingrum
Jurnal Respirologi Indonesia Vol 39, No 3 (2019)
Publisher : Perhimpunan Dokter Paru Indonesia (PDPI)/The Indonesian Society of Respirology (ISR)

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (900.239 KB) | DOI: 10.36497/jri.v39i3.69

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Cases of pulmonary mycosis or pulmonary fungal diseases continues to increase in frequency along with the expanding population with impaired immune systems, including patients with pre-existing pulmonary diseases. Changing profile of underlying diseases might cause altering diseases profile as well. In previous decades, Pneumocystis pneumonia was the most common pulmonary mycosis in HIV-infected patients. As the increasing number of TB cases, pulmonary malignancy, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and certain chronic diseases, other pulmonary mycoses also increase such as chronic pulmonary aspergillosis, cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis, and other filamentous fungal infection. Furthermore, the airborne fungal particles of Aspergillus and other fungi could seriously worsen asthma or allergic respiratory diseases. In low- and middle-income countries, including Indonesia, lack of diagnostic facilities may lead to inadequate treatment. It will contribute to poor clinical outcomes with high mortality rates. The awareness among clinicians and other health workers of this epidemiology changes is the important step in early diagnosis and better managemenet of pulmonary mycosis in the future. (J Respir Indo. 2019; 39(3): 210-4)
Clinical Performance of the Aspergillus Western Blot IgG Kit for Serodiagnosis of Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Post-Tuberculosis Patients Anna Rozaliyani; Sresta Azahra; Findra Setianingrum; Heri Wibowo
Jurnal Respirologi Indonesia Vol 43, No 4 (2023)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36497/jri.v43i4.562

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Background: Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) due to Aspergillus spp., causing slowly progressive destruction to lung parenchyma, is a major complication of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Detecting Aspergillus-specific IgG is critical for diagnosing CPA.Methods: We evaluated the performance of Aspergillus Western Blot (Asp-WB) IgG kit (LDBio Diagnostics, Lyon, France), a commercialized immunoblot assay for the diagnosis of CPA in 63 post-tuberculosis patients.Results: The sensitivity and specificity of Asp-WB were 50% and 93%. There was significant difference of Asp-WB positive results in probable CPA (n = 13) and non-CPA (n = 3) group (50% vs. 8%, p < 0.001). False negative results of Asp-WB were detected from non-fumigatus CPA that grew Aspergillus niger. CPA patients with mild symptoms (less than 3 months) indicated early progression of CPA might showed positive Asp-WB test resultd in low sensitivity of Asp-WB test.Conclusion: This study concluded that Asp-WB has potential to use as confirmatory test to assist diagnosis of CPA in post-TB patients.