Serum and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid galactomannan assays in patients with pulmonary aspergilloma

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Park, Seong Yeon ^a   Lee, Sang Oh ^a   Choi, Sang Ho ^a   Jeong, Jin Yong ^a   Sung, Heungsup ^a,b   Kim, Mi Na ^b   Choi, Chang Min ^a   Hong, Sang Bum ^a   Oh, Yeon Mok ^a   Shim, Tae Sun ^a   Lim, Chae Man ^a   Koh, Younsuck ^a   Kim, Dong Soon ^a   Kim, Yang Soo ^a   Woo, Jun Hee ^a   Kim, Sung Han ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Laboratory Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALACTOMANNAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOMA; ASSAY; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERUM; SPUTUM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANNANS; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM;

EID: 79953744534     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir027     Document Type: Article

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