Invasive infections due to filamentous fungi other than Aspergillus: epidemiology and determinants of mortality

M Slavin; S van Hal; TC Sorrell; A Lee; DJ Marriott; K Daveson; K Kennedy; K Hajkowicz; C Halliday; E Athan; N Bak; E Cheong; CH Heath; C Orla Morrissey; S Kidd; R Beresford; C Blyth; TM Korman; J Owen Robinson; W Meyer; SC-A Chen; J Clark; J McCormack; D Looke; E Geoffrey Playford; S Chen; T Gottlieb; C Halliday; D Marriott; B McMullan; W Meyer; T Sorrell; S van Hal; M Ananda-Rajah; C Orla Morrissey; N Macesic; M Slavin; K Thursky; N Bak; S Kidd; I Arthur; C Blyth; C Heath; K Kennedy; K Daveson; A Morris; S Chambers

Journal article

Invasive infections due to filamentous fungi other than Aspergillus: epidemiology and determinants of mortality

M Slavin, S van Hal, TC Sorrell, A Lee, DJ Marriott, K Daveson, K Kennedy, K Hajkowicz, C Halliday, E Athan, N Bak, E Cheong, CH Heath, C Orla Morrissey, S Kidd, R Beresford, C Blyth, TM Korman, J Owen Robinson, W Meyer Show all

Clinical Microbiology and Infection | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2014.12.021

University of Melbourne Researchers

Kas Thursky Author Medicine - Royal Melbourne Hospital

Monica Slavin Author Medicine - Royal Melbourne Hospital

Eugene Athan Author Medical Education

Grants

Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia

Funding Acknowledgements

We thank hospital scientists across Australia for their assistance in fungal identification, and in the forwarding of isolates to the reference laboratories. We also thank A. Riddell, based at the Royal Darwin Hospital when the study was performed, and C. Mahoney and N. Cornish of Deakin University, for their assistance in data collection. T. C. Sorrell is a Sydney Medical School Foundation Fellow whose work is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (#1050106). The authors thank Pfizer Australia, Gilead Sciences Inc. and Merck for their financial support, in part, for this study.