Editorial: Diagnosis of pulmonary histoplasmosis using antigen detection in the bronchoalveolar lavage

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 427-429

  Hage, Chadi A ^a   Wheat, Lawrence Joseph ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIRAVISTA DIAGNOSTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

blastomycosis; bronchoalveolar lavage; coccidioidomycosis; diagnosis; Histoplasma antigen; histoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; BLASTOMYCOSIS; BLOOD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; SEROLOGY; URINE; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG MYCOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; BLASTOMYCOSIS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CROSS REACTIONS; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 77955023097     PISSN: 17476348     EISSN: 17476356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ers.10.36     Document Type: Editorial

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