Increased Risk of Invasive Aspergillosis in Immunocompromised Patients With Persistent SARS-CoV-2 Viral Shedding >8 Weeks, Retrospective Case-control Study.

"Potential conflict of interests. All authors: No reported conflicts. Potential conflict of interests."

"Financial support. C. M.'s position was funded by the Agence nationale de recherches sur le sida et les hépatites virales. Financial support."

"We conducted a retrospective bicentric case control study including IC patients with persistent SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding >8 weeks. Patients were included from 2 different university hospitals, Cochin Hospital and Necker Enfants-Malades Hospital (“Paris-Centre hospital group”), and IC patients were included from the departments of infectious diseases and tropical medicine, nephrology, kidney transplantation, hematology, ICU, and internal medicine. The study was approved by the French Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris Research Ethics Committee “Comité d’éthique de la recherche APHP centre” (institutional review board registration: #00011928), in accordance with current standards."