False positive galactomannan test after ice-pop ingestion

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 369, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 97-98

  Guigue, Nicolas ^a   Menotti, Jean ^a   Ribaud, Patricia ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; GALACTOMANNAN; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DEATH; DIET RESTRICTION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; LETTER; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; PENICILLIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84879760779     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1210430     Document Type: Letter

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