(1→3) β-D-glucan as a quantitative serological marker for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 197-199

  Yasuoka, Akira ^a   Tachikawa, Natsuo ^a   Shimada, Kaoru ^a   Kimura, Satoshi ^a   Oka, Shinichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; BETA-1,3-GLUCAN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUCAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; NUDE MOUSE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA;

ANIMALS; BETA-GLUCANS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; FEMALE; GLUCANS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS;

EID: 0029658917     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.3.2.197-199.1996     Document Type: Article

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