Development and evaluation of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to detect Histoplasma capsulatum antigenuria in immunocompromised patients

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 852-858

  Scheel, Christina M ^a   Samayoa, Blanca ^b   Herrera, Alejandro ^b   Lindsley, Mark D ^a   Benjamin, Lynette ^a   Reed, Yvonne ^a   Hart, John ^a   Lima, Sandra ^b   Rivera, Blanca E ^b   Raxcaco, Gabriella ^b   Chiller, Tom ^a   Arathoon, Eduardo ^b   Gómez, Beatriz L ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Hospital General San Juan de Dios Guatemala   (Guatemala)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FUNGAL DETECTION; GUATEMALA; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RABBITS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67249125107     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00066-09     Document Type: Article

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