Aspergillus fumigatus Asp fI DNA Is Prevalent in Sputum from Patients with Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis

Respiration

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 291-295

  Nomoto, Yoshitsugu ^a   Kuwano, Kazuyoshi ^a   Hagimoto, Naoki ^a   Kunitake, Ritsuko ^a   Tsuda, Minoru ^b   Hara, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tsuda Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspergillus fumigatus; Aspf 1; Pneumoconiosis; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAL WORKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; COAL MINING; DNA, FUNGAL; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0030998449     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: 14230356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000196689     Document Type: Article

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