Detection of fungal organisms in eosinophilic mucin using a fluorescein-labeled chitin-specific binding protein

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 377-383

  Taylor, Matthew J ^a   Ponikau, Jens U ^a   Sherris, David A ^a   Kern, Eugene B ^a   Gaffey, Thomas A ^a   Kephart, Gail ^a   Kita, Hirohito ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CHITIN; CHITINASE; EOSIN; FLUORESCEIN; HEMATOXYLIN; METHENAMINE; MUCIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORESCEIN DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CANDIDA; CLADOSPORIUM; FEMALE; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUSARIUM; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENICILLIUM; RHINOSINUSITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILVER STAINING; CHRONIC DISEASE; EOSINOPHILIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; STAINING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHITIN; CHITINASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; HYPHAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCINS; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 0036831295     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhn.2002.128896     Document Type: Article

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