[Herodotus38]

I wish I could read the paper. I’m interested in what kind of fungal pneumonia they were looking at. My googling got me to find the title on the Middle School Facebook page but not sure if it’s available ti read.

[kartben_]

I'll check with Caleb but I am guessing/hoping he will be willing to make the paper more broadly accessible soon.

[Herodotus38]

Thanks, for reference I am a hospital physician (internal medicine) so I do occasionally deal with fungal pneumonia.

[thatcat]

I doubt that it is possible to differentiate between fungal types using gas sensors trained on spores being released.

[Herodotus38]

I would be interested in what they are testing, it probably wouldn’t be spores but likely something along the lines of biochemical compounds specific to certain species. For example we use blood tests for the presence of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactomannan to help diagnose invasive aspergillosis.

[thatcat]

That requires wetlab work and those compounds usually aren't aerosolized, but i agree it would still be interesting to know the exact details