About the Authors

Jesús Guinea

jguineaortega@yahoo.es

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES CD06/06/0058), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Camilo Padilla

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

Pilar Escribano

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES CD06/06/0058), Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Patricia Muñoz

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES CD06/06/0058), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Belén Padilla

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

Paloma Gijón

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

Emilio Bouza

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES CD06/06/0058), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors declare that the MycXtra® and MycAssayTM Aspergillus kits were kindly supplied from Izasa (Barcelona, Spain). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG CP EB. Performed the experiments: JG PE. Analyzed the data: JG CP PM BP PG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG CP PE EB. Wrote the paper: JG CP PE EB.