Detection of antigen in sera of patients with invasive aspergillosis: Intra- and interlaboratory reproducibility

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1612-1616

  Verweij, Paul E ^a   Erjavec, Zoran ^b   Sluiters, Wim ^b   Goessens, Wil ^c   Rozenberg Arska, Marja ^d   Debets Ossenkopp, Yvette J ^e   Guiot, Henri F L ^f   Meis, Jacques F G M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIGEN; GALACTOMANNAN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; NEUTROPENIA; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS GALACTOMANNAN; FUNGI;

EID: 0031980336     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.6.1612-1616.1998     Document Type: Article

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