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The differential diagnosis for pulmonary infiltrates in the immunocompromised host includes opportunistic infections, drug toxicity, alveolar haemorrhage and progression of the primary disease. The diagnostic yield of bronchoscopy in immunocompromised patients with lung infiltrates is variable with a higher yield (∼81%) for infectious aetiologies. On the basis of the larvae in the bronchoalveolar lavage …

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