Clinical relevance of peripheral blood eosinophil count in allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

Journal of Infection and Public Health

Volumn 4, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 235-243

  Agarwal, Ritesh ^a   Khan, Ajmal ^a   Aggarwal, Ashutosh N ^a   Varma, Neelam ^a   Garg, Mandeep ^b   Saikia, Biman ^a   Gupta, Dheeraj ^a   Chakrabarti, Arunaloke ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b Potgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research   (India)

Author keywords

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA); Aspergillus fumigatus; Eosinophils

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRONCHIECTASIS; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SPIROMETRY; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHIL; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUCUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TEST;

FUNGUS ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ASPERGILLOSIS, ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BRONCHIECTASIS; COHORT STUDIES; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TESTS; SPIROMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857092680     PISSN: 18760341     EISSN: 1876035X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2011.08.006     Document Type: Article

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