Serum indicators for the diagnosis of pneumocystis pneumonia

Chest

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1173-1180

  Tasaka, Sadatomo ^a   Hasegawa, Naoki ^a   Kobayashi, Seiki ^a   Yamada, Wakako ^a   Nishimura, Tomoyasu ^a   Takeuchi, Tsutomu ^a   Ishizaka, Akitoshi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

(1 3) D glucan; BAL; KL 6; Lactate dehydrogenase; Pneumocystis pneumonia

Indexed keywords

BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; KL6 ANTIGEN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG FLUID; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REVIEW; SERUM;

EID: 34247251528     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.06-1467     Document Type: Article

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