Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a cause of 1,3-β-d-glucan assay reactivity

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1930-1931

  Mennink Kersten, Monique A S H ^a   Ruegebrink, Dorien ^a   Verweij, Paul E ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; BETA GLUCAN; BETA-1,3-D-GLUCAN;

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CROSS REACTION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LETTER; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTEREMIA; BETA-GLUCANS; CROSS REACTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MYCOSES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 46249102672     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588563     Document Type: Letter

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