The mechanism for low yield of blood culture in invasive aspergillosis; the clinical importance of antigen detection tests revisited [3]

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-86

  Kami, M ^a   Murashige, N ^a   Fujihara, T ^b   Sakagami, N ^b   Tanaka, Y ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Medical Research Information Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THROMBOSIS;

ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; FUNGEMIA; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 21744462932     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704997     Document Type: Letter

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