Diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis with use of the Coccidioides antigen enzyme immunoassay

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Durkin, Michelle ^a   Connolly, Patricia ^a   Kuberski, Tim ^d   Myers, Robert ^b   Kubak, Bernard M ^c   Bruckner, David ^c   Pegues, David ^c   Wheat, L Joseph ^a  

^a MIRAVISTA DIAGNOSTICS   (United States)

^b MARICOPA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; GALACTOMANNAN;

ANTIGEN ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FUNGUS GROWTH; HISTOPLASMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CROSS REACTIONS; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MANNANS; RABBITS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINE;

EID: 53349095371     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/592073     Document Type: Article

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