False-positive Aspergillus antigen testing due to application of piperacillin/tazobactam-is it still an issue?

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 117-120

  Penack, Olaf ^a   Rempf, Patricia ^a   Graf, Barbara ^a   Thiel, Eckhard ^a   Blau, Igor Wolfgang ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; Galactomannan; Piperacillin

Indexed keywords

GALACTOMANNAN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRONCHOSCOPE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; ASPERGILLOSIS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MANNANS; PENICILLANIC ACID; PIPERACILLIN;

EID: 36849009193     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.07.020     Document Type: Article

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