Use of nasopharyngeal aspirate for diagnosis of pneumocystis pneumonia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1570-1574

  To, Kelvin K W ^a,b   Wong, Sally C Y ^b   Xu, Ting ^b   Poon, Rosana W S ^b   Mok, Ka Yi ^b   Chan, Jasper F W ^b   Cheng, Vincent C C ^b   Chan, Kwok Hung ^b   Hung, Ivan F N ^a,b   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a,b  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA, MITOCHONDRIAL;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ADULT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NASAL LAVAGE; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS;

PNEUMOCYSTIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NASAL LAVAGE; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84876776134     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03264-12     Document Type: Article

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