Pulmonary aspergillosis

**Aspergillosis** (aspergillosis) of the lungs is a disease caused by a parasitic fungus of the genus Aspergillus; Most cases affect people under 50 years of age. It is characterized by the formation of infiltrates under the pleura (pleurisy) or in the thickness of the lung (abscess, bronchiectasis, miliary tuberculosis), damage to the cerebral and peripheral nerves, and the development of immunodeficiency. Mycotic pleuropneumonia often develops in people suffering from allergic and obstructive bronchial diseases. In the chronic course of the disease, damage to the meninges, brain, myocardium, liver,