Efficacy of DNA amplification in tissue biopsy samples to improve the detection of invasive fungal disease

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Buitrago, M J ^a   Aguado, J M ^b   Ballen, A ^b   Bernal Martinez, L ^a   Prieto, M ^c   Garcia Reyne, A ^b   Garcia Rodriguez, J ^c   Rodriguez Tudela, J L ^a   Cuenca Estrella, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b Universidad Complutense ^*  (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; Mycosis; Paraffin; PCR based; Zygomycetes

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CANDIDA; DNA DETERMINATION; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INVASIVE FUNGAL DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHIZOPUS; RHIZOPUS ARRHIZUS; SAKSENEAE VASIFORMIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TISSUE CULTURE; ZYGOMYCETES;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA; FUNGI; MUCORALES; RHIZOPUS MICROSPORUS; RHIZOPUS ORYZAE; ZYGOMYCETES;

BIOPSY; DNA, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MYCOSES; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84876789639     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12110     Document Type: Article

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