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Thorax 47:570-571 doi:10.1136/thx.47.7.570
  • Short Reports

Chronic necrotising pulmonary aspergillosis caused by Aspergillus niger in a mildly immunocompromised host

  1. M Yamaguchi,
  2. H Nishiya,
  3. K Mano,
  4. O Kunii,
  5. H Miyashita
  1. Second Department of Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Itabashi-Ku, Tokyo 173, Japan

      Abstract

      A middle aged man with diabetes mellitus and chronic alcoholic hepatitis developed chronic necrotising pulmonary aspergillosis or semi-invasive aspergillosis due to Aspergillus niger.