Molecular diagnosis of human histoplasmosis in whole blood samples;Diagnóstico molecular de histoplasmosis humana en muestras de sangre entera

Revista Argentina de Microbiologia

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-26

  Toranzo, A I ^a   Tiraboschi, I N ^b   Fernandez N ^b   Ibarra Camou, B ^a   Rivas, M C ^a   Lee, W ^a   Davel, G ^a   Canteros, C E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

^b HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS JOSÉ DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Histoplasmosis; Molecular diagnosis; PCR; Whole blood sample

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL ENZYME; PROTEINASE K;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRICHODERMA HARZIANUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DNA, FUNGAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249121944     PISSN: 03257541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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