Diagnostic value of DNA, (1-3)-β-d-glucan, and galactomannan detection in serum and bronchoalveolar lavage of mice experimentally infected with Aspergillus terreus

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 165-171

  Ahmad, Suhail ^a   Khan, Ziauddin U ^a   Theyyathel, Ajmal Muliyam ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

(1 3) d glucan; Aspergillus terreus; Experimental aspergillosis; Galactomannan; Nested PCR

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; DNA; GALACTOMANNAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG HOMOGENATE; LUNG LAVAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BETA-GLUCANS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MANNANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 34848817379     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.04.009     Document Type: Article

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