False-positive Aspergillus real-time PCR assay due to a nutritional supplement in a bone marrow transplant recipient with GVH disease

Medical Mycology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 661-664

  Millon, L ^a,b   Grenouillet, F ^a,b   Crouzet, J ^a   Larosa, F ^c   Loewert, S ^a   Bellanger, A P ^a,b   Deconinck, E ^b,c   Legrand, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

Author keywords

Aspergillosis; False positive; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ITRACONAZOLE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HALLUCINATION; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPPLEMENTATION; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DNA, FUNGAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MANNANS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ASPERGILLUS;

EID: 77952501188     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693780903451836     Document Type: Article

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