Assessment of a quantitative PCR method for clinical diagnosis of imported histoplasmosis;Evaluación de una técnica de PCR cuantitativa para el diagnóstico clínico de la histoplasmosis importada

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 16-22

  Buitrago, María José ^a   Gómez López, Alicia ^a   Monzón, Araceli ^a   Rodríguez Tudela, Juan Luis ^a   Cuenca Estrella, Manuel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Histoplasma capsulatum; HIV+; Molecular diagnosis; Serology

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; GENOMIC DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA PROBE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNODIFFUSION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MYCOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY;

EID: 33846896946     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13096748     Document Type: Article

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