GENOME DISCOVERY WILL HELP COMBAT DISEASE AND
LEAD TO NEW DRUGS

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1. Chest X rays of patient with lymphoma and invasive pulmonary aspergillosis; diagnosed by blood culture and successfully treated. For more details see case history (please register on site to view).
2.Fungal hyphae in a patient's phlegm (below).

1.Chest radiograph with ‘classical' appearance of a pulmonary infarction – a wedge-shaped lesion peripherally set against the pleura. This patient was receiving chemotherapy including corticosteriods, who had had a splenectomy previously presented with fever and right-sided pleuritic chest pain. Blood cultures grew Aspergillus fumigatus and he responded to amphotericin B and flucytosine.

1. Chest X ray after 4 days, prior to treatment, showing massive increase in volume of lesion. He started amphotericin B and flucytosine b that day and responded over 10 weeks.



2. Aspergillus hypahe in the phlegm of a patient with aspergillosis.
High power microscopy with Papanicolau stain

 

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