[Recommendations of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC) on the prevention of invasive fungal infection due to filamentous fungi].
Invasive fungal infections (IFI) due to filamentous fungi still have high rates of mortality associated with the difficulties of early detection of the infection and their therapeutic limitations. Consequently, a useful approach is to prevent patients at risk of fungal infection from getting in contact with conidia of Aspergillus and other mould species. This document describes the recommendations to prevent IFI due to filamentous fungi, prepared by Spanish experts from different medical and professional fields. The paper reviews the incidence of the IFI in different risk populations and the questions related to environmental measures of prevention, control of hospital infections, additional procedures for prevention, prevention of IFI outside hospitals, as well as antifungal prophylaxis.
Ruiz-Camps
Isabel
I
Servicio de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital de Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, España.
Aguado
Jose María
JM
Almirante
Benito
B
Bouza
Emilio
E
Ferrer Barbera
Carmen
C
Len
Oscar
O
López-Cerero
Lorena
L
Rodríguez-Tudela
Juan Luis
JL
Ruiz
Miguel
M
Solé
Amparo
A
Vallejo
Carlos
C
Vázquez
Lourdes
L
Zaragoza
Rafael
R
Cuenca-Estrella
Manuel
M
D001228:Aspergillosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D004777:Environment; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D009181:Mycoses / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors