Assessment of Aspergillus-specific T cells for diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis in a leukemic child with liver lesions mimicking hepatosplenic candidiasis

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1625-1628

  Potenza, Leonardo ^a   Barozzi, Patrizia ^a   Rossi, Giulio ^a   Palazzi, Giovanni ^a   Vallerini, Daniela ^a   Riva, Giovanni ^a   Cellini, Monica ^a   Morselli, Monica ^a   Volzone, Francesco ^a   Venturelli, Claudia ^a   Quadrelli, Chiara ^a   Di Pancrazio, Luciana ^a   Cano, Maria Carmen ^a   Paolucci, Paolo ^a   Torelli, Giuseppe ^a   Luppi, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; ETOPOSIDE; GALACTOMANNAN; GAMMA INTERFERON; IDARUBICIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; MITOXANTRONE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; HEPATOSPLENIC CANDIDIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; CHILD; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER; PATHOLOGY; SECRETION;

ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; LIVER; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 55449090667     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00198-08     Document Type: Article

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