Detection of Histoplasma capsulatum antigenuria by ultrafiltration of samples with false-negative results

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 726-728

  Egan, Lindsey ^a   Connolly, Patricia A ^a   Fuller, Deanna ^b   Davis, Thomas E ^b   Witt III, John ^a   Knox, Kenneth S ^b   Hage, Chadi A ^b   Wheat, L Joseph ^a  

^a MIRAVISTA DIAGNOSTICS   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FUNGAL DETECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRAFILTRATION; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 47049118978     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00493-07     Document Type: Article

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