Detection of candidaemia in patients with and without underlying haematological disease

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 855-862

  Arendrup, M C ^a,b   Bergmann, O J ^a   Larsson, L ^c   Nielsen, H V ^b   Jarlov J O ^a   Christensson, B ^d  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c Department of Medical Microbiology ^*  (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antigen; Blood culture; Candida; Candidaemia; Diagnostics; Mannan; Neutropenia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIGEN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ARABINITOL; MANNAN ANTIBODY; MANNAN ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDEMIA; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEUTROPENIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA TROPICALIS;

EID: 77954653328     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.02931.x     Document Type: Article

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