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ArticleJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)2018

An Estimate of the Burden of Fungal Disease in Norway.

Ingvild Nordøy, Liv Hesstvedt, Cecilie Torp Andersen, Haima Mylvaganam, Nicola Isabelle Kols, Birgit Margrethe Falch, Ståle Tofteland, Fredrik Müller, David William Denning

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Article in Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Ingvild NordøySection for Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, 0372 Oslo, Norway. inordoy@ous-hf.no.ORCID 0000-0003-4575-7528
Liv HesstvedtResearch Institute for Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, 0372 Oslo, Norway. uxzhcl@ous-hf.no.
Cecilie Torp AndersenDepartment of Microbiology, Oslo University Hospital, 0372 Oslo, Norway. ceanders@ous-hf.no.
Haima MylvaganamDepartment of Microbiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, 5021 Bergen, Norway. haima.mylvaganam@helse-bergen.no.
Nicola Isabelle KolsDepartment of Microbiology, St. Olav's Hospital, 7030 Trondheim, Norway. Nicola.Isabelle.Kols@stolav.no.
Birgit Margrethe FalchDepartment of Microbiology, University Hospital of Northern Norway, 9019 Tromsø, Norway. Birgit.margrethe.falch@unn.no.
Ståle ToftelandDepartment of Microbiology, Sørlandet Hospital, 4615 Kristiansand, Norway. staale.tofteland@sshf.no.
Fredrik MüllerDepartment of Microbiology, Oslo University Hospital, 0372 Oslo, Norway. fmuller@ous-hf.no.
David William DenningNational Aspergillosis Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital and The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. david.denning@manchester.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-5626-2251
Oslo University Hospital · NOHaukeland University Hospital · NOSørlandet Sykehus · NOSt Olav's University Hospital · NOUniversity Hospital of North Norway · NOUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine the burden of fungal disease in Norway, contributing to a worldwide effort to improve awareness of the needs for better diagnosis and treatment of such infections. We used national registers and actual data from the Departments of Microbiology from 2015 and estimated the incidence and/or prevalence of superficial, allergic and invasive fungal disease using published reports on specific populations at risk. One in 6 Norwegians suffered from fungal disease: Superficial skin infections (14.3%: 745,600) and recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis in fertile women (6%: 43,123) were estimated to be the most frequent infections. Allergic fungal lung disease was estimated in 17,755 patients (341/100,000). Pneumocystis jirovecii was diagnosed in 262 patients (5/100,000), invasive candidiasis in 400 patients (7.7/100,000), invasive aspergillosis in 278 patients (5.3/100,000) and mucormycosis in 7 patients (0.1/100,000). Particular fungal infections from certain geographic areas were not observed. Overall, 1.79% of the population was estimated to be affected by serious fungal infections in Norway in 2015. Even though estimates for invasive infections are small, the gravity of such infections combined with expected demographic changes in the future emphasizes the need for better epidemiological data.

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allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA)aspergillosisCandidaepidemiologyfungal burdenmucoralesNorwayPneumocystissevere asthma with fungal sensitization (SAFS)

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