Use of a serum β-glucan assay for diagnosis of HIV-related Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in patients with negative microscopic examination results

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1928-1930

  Pisculli, Mary L ^a   Sax, Paul E ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; BETA-1,3-D-GLUCAN;

ADULT; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERKALEMIA; LETTER; LIVER TOXICITY; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; SPUTUM;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BETA-GLUCANS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SPUTUM;

EID: 46249099652     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588564     Document Type: Letter

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