Tsuyoshi Oguma, Takashi Ishiguro, Katsuhiko Kamei, Jun Tanaka, Junko Suzuki, Akira Hebisawa, Yasushi Obase, Hiroshi Mukae, Takae Tanosaki, Shiho Furusho, Koji Kurokawa, Kentaro Watai, Hiroto Matsuse, Norihiro Harada, Ai Nakamura, Takuo Shibayama, Rie Baba, Kentaro Fukunaga, Hisako Matsumoto, Hisano Ohba, Susumu Sakamoto, Shinko Suzuki, Shintetsu Tanaka, Takahiro Yamada, Akira Yamasaki, Yuma Fukutomi, Yoshiki Shiraishi, Takahito Toyotome, Koichi Fukunaga, Terufumi Shimoda, Satoshi Konno, Masami Taniguchi, Katsuyoshi Tomomatsu, Naoki Okada, Koichiro Asano
BACKGROUND: Allergic bronchopulmonary mycosis (ABPM) is an allergic disease caused by type I and type III hypersensitivity to environmental fungi. Schizophyllum commune, a basidiomycete fungus, is one of the most common fungi that causes non-Aspergillus ABPM. OBJECTIVE: Herein, we attempted to clarify the clinical characteristics of ABPM caused by S. commune (ABPM-Sc) compared with those of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). METHODS: Patients with ABPM-Sc or ABPA were recruited from a nationwide survey in Japan, a multicenter cohort, and a fungal database at the Medical Mycology Research Center of Chiba University...
January 2024: Clinical and Translational Allergy