Françoise Foulet

TL;DR: Preemptive treatment increased the incidence of invasive fungal disease, without increasing mortality, and decreased the costs of antifungal drugs, and may provide better survival rates for patients receiving induction chemotherapy.

TL;DR: A real-time PCR test using fluorescence resonance energy transfer hybridization probes to detect and quantify Toxoplasma gondii DNA in serum gave reproducible quantitative results over a dynamic range of from 0.75 × 106 to0.75 parasites per PCR mixture.

TL;DR: The prevalence of azole resistance is currently low in the haematological population in the Paris area and surveillance programmes for azolesole resistance to adapt antifungal treatments are warranted for clinical isolates of A. fumigatus.

TL;DR: A qPCR assay developed and compared the results with those of a routine immunofluorescence assay and clinical data, finding that Quantifying P. jirovecii DNA in BAL fluids independently of IFA positivity should be incorporated into the investigation of pneumonia in immunocompromised patients.

TL;DR: Real-time PCR followed by sequencing of the cytochrome b gene confirmed the diagnosis of leishmaniasis and rapidly determined the infecting species directly from the clinical specimen without the need for the isolation of parasites.