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What are the symptoms and mucus appearance due to fungal lung infection (vs. bacterial or viral)? how are fungal lung infections diagnosed?
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Diagnosis: Mucus appearance does not give us diagnosis nor really give us a clue as to type of most of the time even the presence of infection. Lung infections with fungi are diagnosed when a person who had been to an area endemic for a fungus presents with symptoms, cxr taken, some clues are seen, and either a titer (blood reaction) or sputum by expectoration or fob, stains positive and grows the fungus.
Answered 1/5/2019
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