Are serum cytokines sensitive and specific enough to prognosticate in aspergillosis?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 203, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1503-

  Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8;

CYTOGENETICS; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; LETTER; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASPERGILLOSIS; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 79955024739     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir050     Document Type: Letter

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