Combined real-time PCR and galactomannan surveillance improves diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis in high risk patients with haematological malignancies

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 517-524

  Rogers, Thomas R ^a   Morton, Charles Oliver ^a,c   Springer, Jan ^b   Conneally, Eibhlin ^a   Heinz, Werner ^b   Kenny, Claire ^a   Frost, Susanna ^a   Einsele, Hermann ^b   Loeffler, Juergen ^b  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aspergillus fumigatus; Diagnosis; Galactomannan; Invasive aspergillosis; PCR

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; EDETIC ACID; FUNGAL DNA; GALACTOMANNAN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; MYELOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MANNANS; PREVALENCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84876806284     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjh.12285     Document Type: Article

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