Evaluation of Plasma (l→3)-β-D-Glucan Measurement by the Kinetic Turbidimetric Limulus Test, for the Clinical Diagnosis of Mycotic Infections

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 553-560

  Mori, Takeshi ^a   Ikemoto, Hideo ^a   Matsumura, Makiko ^a   Yoshida, Masao ^b   Inada, Katsuya ^b   Endo, Shigeatsu ^b   Ito, Akira ^c   Watanabe, Shinichiro ^c   Yamaguchi, Hideyo ^d   Mitsuya, Masayasu ^d   Kodama, Masatomo ^e   Tani, Tom ^e   Yokota, Toru ^e   Kobayashi, Tomoe ^e   Kambayashi, Junichi ^f   Nakamura, Takashi ^f   Masaokc, Toru ^g   Teshima, Hirofumi ^g   Yoshinaga, Tetsuo ^g   Kohno, Shigeru ^h   Hare, Kouhei ^h   Miyazaki, Sachishige ^h   more..

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^f OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^g OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^h NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 1,3 GLUCAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CANDIDIASIS; CELL WALL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMULUS LYSATE TEST; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; TURBIDIMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASPERGILLOSIS; BETA-GLUCANS; CANDIDIASIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; GLUCANS; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIMULUS TEST; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; TIME FACTORS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

CANDIDA; LIMULUS;

EID: 0030791989     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm.1997.35.7.553     Document Type: Article

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