Post-tuberculosis lung disease and pulmonary aspergillosis management: challenges and considerations
CPA remains severely underdiagnosed due to overlapping features with TB, limited diagnostic access, and absence from national TB programs. Integrating CPA diagnostic bundles into national TB programs, standardizing serologic thresholds, ensuring antifungal stewardship, and developing validated composite response criteria are essential to improving outcomes in PTLA populations.
Authors
- R Agarwal
- Helmut J.F. Salzer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0146-8310)
- Inderpaul Singh Sehgal
- Valliappan Muthu
Institutions
- Johannes Kepler University of Linz (AT)
- Biology of Infection (FR)
- Kepler Universitätsklinikum (AT)
- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy
- Published
- 2026-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14787210.2026.2631525
- Primary Topic
- Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00