Molecular diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis in patients with hematologic malignancies - New answers to a diagnostic challenge?

Expert Opinion on Medical Diagnostics

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 753-761

  Buchheidt, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aspergillus species; Detection; Hematology; Molecular methods

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; GENOMIC DNA;

ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BLOOD CULTURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER PATIENT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA MICROARRAY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; STAINING;

EID: 77953409618     PISSN: 17530059     EISSN: 17530067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17530059.2.7.753     Document Type: Review

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