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I have had vaginal swabs which found aspergillus present, has anyone heard of this?

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I have had blood tests taken and await the results.

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GAthertonAdministratorFungal Infection Trust

Aspergillus may be found in warm moist areas of our bodies, and it will also be found in our clothing so there is a possibility that spores could be transferred to our genitalia. Once there they will be quickly removed by our normal bodily cleaning processes - the presence of Aspergillus in this case may well be just such a short term exposure or may be the result of contamination at the diagnostics laboratory or when taking the sample as it floats in the air all around us - even in doctors surgeries!

There are very rare cases of vaginal infection with aspergillus (see ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl... but they have been in patients with other severe health problems.

It is certainly worth ruling out all possibilities and it sounds like your doctors are doing that.