Serial monitoring of Aspergillus antigen in the early diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis. Preliminary investigations with two examples

Infection

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 86-89

  Verweij, P E ^a   Dompeling, E C ^a   Donnelly, J P ^a   Schattenberg, A V M B ^a   Meis, J F G M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; GALACTOMANNAN;

ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUTOPSY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MANNANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0030975632     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02113581     Document Type: Article

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