Performance of candida real-time polymerase chain reaction, β-D-glucan assay, and blood cultures in the diagnosis of invasive candidiasis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1240-1248

  Nguyen, M Hong ^a   Wissel, Mark C ^b   Shields, Ryan K ^a   Salomoni, Martin A ^b   Hao, Binghua ^a   Press, Ellen G ^a   Shields, Ryan M ^b   Cheng, Shaoji ^a   Mitsani, Dimitra ^a   Vadnerkar, Aniket ^a   Silveira, Fernanda P ^a   Kleiboeker, Steven B ^b   Clancy, Cornelius J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Viracor IBT Laboratories   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3 BETA GLUCANASE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ECHINOCANDIN; FLUCONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANDIDEMIA; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUCOCUTANEOUS CANDIDIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BETA-GLUCANS; CANDIDA; CANDIDEMIA; CANDIDIASIS; CANDIDIASIS, INVASIVE; DNA, FUNGAL; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84859751787     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis200     Document Type: Article

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