Strategy for overcoming serum interferences in detection of serum (1,3)-β-D-glucans

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 375-376

  Sendid, Boualem ^a   Francois, Nadine ^a   Decool, Vanessa ^a   Poissy, Julien ^a   Poulain, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; BILIRUBIN; EDETATE SODIUM; HEMOGLOBIN; MANNAN; PROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABNORMALLY HIGH SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION IN BLOOD; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; DISSOCIATION; GLUCANEMIA; HEAT DISSOCIATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERPROTIDIC; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; LETTER; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERNATANT; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS;

BETA-GLUCANS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MYCOSES; SERUM;

EID: 84871692756     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02356-12     Document Type: Letter

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