I am 30 years old recently diagnosed with pulmonary aspergilloma. A second opinion fungal culture of hemoptysis blood is positive for candida albicans. Can candida present as a pulmonary mycetoma without being invasive in a colonise post tb cavity? I am not immunocompromised.

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