A modicum of caution for blood (1→3)-β-D-glucan testing for pneumocystis jurovecii in HIV-infected patients

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1039-1040

  Green, Myke R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ASPERGILLUS; CANDIDA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BETA-GLUCANS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS;

EID: 80054743867     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir634     Document Type: Letter

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