title: Imaging infection.
abstract: Thoracic imaging is widely used to detect lower respiratory tract infections, identify their complications, and aid in differentiating infectious from noninfectious thoracic disease. Less commonly, the combination of imaging findings and a clinical setting can favor infection with a specific organism. This confluence can occur in cases of bronchiectatic nontuberculous mycobacterial infections in immune-competent hosts, invasive fungal disease among neutropenic patients, Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in patients with AIDS, and in cytomegalovirus infections in patients with recent hematopoietic cell transplantation. These specific diagnoses often depend on computed tomography scanning rather than chest radiography alone.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of New Mexico Health Science Center, MSC10 5530, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA. Electronic address: lketai@salud.unm.edu.
authors.forename: Loren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ketai
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390-8548, USA.
authors.forename: Kirk
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jordan
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Science Center, MSC10 5550, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA.
authors.forename: Katrina H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Busby
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Chest radiography; Computed tomography; Infection; Thoracic imaging