Predictive value of a positive nasal swab for Aspergillus sp. in the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis in adult neutropenic cancer patients

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 193-196

  Nucci, Marcio ^a   Biasoli, Irene ^a   Barreiros, Glória ^a   Akiti, Tiyomi ^a   Derossi, Andrea ^b   Solza, Cristiana ^b   Silveira, Fernanda ^a   Spector, Nelson ^a   Pulcheri, Wolmar ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ITRACONAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; CHILD; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NEUTROPENIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032760979     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(99)00073-5     Document Type: Article

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