Quantitative polymerase chain reaction detection of circulating DNA in serum for early diagnosis of mucormycosis in immunocompromised patients

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Millon, Laurence ^a,b   Larosa, Fabrice ^c   Lepiller, Quentin ^b,d   Legrand, Faezeh ^c   Rocchi, Steffi ^a   Daguindau, Etienne ^c   Scherer, Emeline ^a,b   Bellanger, Anne Pauline ^a,b   Leroy, Joel ^b   Grenouillet, Frederic ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

^c Departments of Clinical Hematology   (France)

^d Departments of Virology   (France)

Author keywords

biomarker; circulating DNA; mucormycosis; quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA;

ABSIDIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUSARIUM SOLANI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LICHTHEIMIA RAMOSA; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; MUCOR RACEMOSUS; MUCORALES; MUCORMYCOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHIZOMUCOR; RHIZOMUCOR PUSILLUS; RHIZOPUS ORYZAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCEDOSPORIUM APIOSPERMUM; SCEDOSPORIUM PROLIFICANS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORALES; MUCORMYCOSIS; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84877246953     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit094     Document Type: Article

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