Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis diagnosed early by polymerase chain reaction assay

Internal Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 744-746

  Kawamura, Sumio ^a   Maesaki, Shigefumi ^a   Omagari, Katsuhisa ^a   Hashiguchi, Kohji ^a   Tomono, Kazunori ^a   Tashiro, Takayoshi ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspergillus fumigatus; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA); Galactomannan; Prednizolone; Serodiagnosis

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGUS ANTIBODY; GALACTOMANNAN; MANNAN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG MYCOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MANNANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033192940     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.38.744     Document Type: Article

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