Open Forum Infect Dis . Invasive Aspergillosis After Influenza and Other Viral Respiratory Infections Among Intensive Care Unit Patients in a Commercially Insured Population in the United States, 2013-2018

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Open Forum Infect Dis


. 2021 Feb 26;8(3):ofab091.
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab091. eCollection 2021 Mar.
Invasive Aspergillosis After Influenza and Other Viral Respiratory Infections Among Intensive Care Unit Patients in a Commercially Insured Population in the United States, 2013-2018


Mitsuru Toda ¹ , Kaitlin Benedict ¹ , Brendan R Jackson ¹



Affiliations

• PMID: 33796602
• PMCID: PMC7990069
• DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofab091

Abstract

Influenza-associated aspergillosis (IAA) is an emerging phenomenon in intensive care unit patients with severe influenza. In a large US health insurance claims database, IAA was uncommon (0.3%) during 2013-2018. The low IAA frequency likely reflects underdiagnosis and differences in medical practices or epidemiologic differences.

Keywords: influenza; invasive aspergillosis; viral respiratory infections.