Antigen assay with the potential to aid in diagnosis of blastomycosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 4873-4875

  Durkin, Michelle ^a   Witt, John ^a   LeMonte, Ann ^a   Wheat, Blair ^a   Connolly, Patricia ^a  

^a MIRAVISTA DIAGNOSTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIOSIS; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BLASTOMYCES; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI;

EID: 5444238066     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.10.4873-4875.2004     Document Type: Article

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