Role of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Diagnostics in Fungal Infections

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 355-365

  Knox, Kenneth S ^a   Meinke, Laura ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ARIZONA VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen testing; Cytology; Endemic; Fungus; Immunosuppressed; Lavage; Lung

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CYTOLOGY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MYCOSIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; STAINING;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL;

EID: 64549095262     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2009.02.010     Document Type: Review

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