Sensitivity and Specificity of a Blood and Urine Galactomannan Antigen Assay for Diagnosis of Systemic Aspergillosis in Dogs

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 911-919

  Garcia, R S ^a   Wheat, L J ^d   Cook, A K ^c   Kirsch, E J ^d   Sykes, J E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Mira Vista Diagnostics   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; Epidemiology; Fungal; Infectious diseases; Microbiology; Mycology general

Indexed keywords

GALACTOMANNAN; MANNAN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOG; DOG DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINE;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; MALE; MANNANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS GALACTOMANNAN; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 84864001512     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: 19391676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-1676.2012.00935.x     Document Type: Article

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