Systematic survey of nonspecific agglutination by Candida spp. in latex assays

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1315-1318

  Becker, Karsten ^a,b   Almasri, Ahmed S ^a   Von Eiff, Christof ^a   Peters, Georg ^a   Heilmann, Christine ^a   Fegeler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; IMMUNOASSAY; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

CANDIDA;

EID: 34247180199     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01688-06     Document Type: Article

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