Clinical significance of quantifying Pneumocystis jirovecii DNA by using real-time PCR in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from immunocompromised patients

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 227-231

  Botterel, Françoise ^a,b   Cabaret, Odile ^a,b   Foulet, Françoise ^a   Cordonnier, Catherine ^a,b   Costa, Jean Marc ^a,c   Bretagne, Stéphane ^a,d  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE CERBA   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FUNGAL GENE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG LAVAGE; MITOCHONDRIAL LARGE SUBUNIT RRNA GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MYCOLOGY; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII;

EID: 84856133503     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.06036-11     Document Type: Article

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