Diagnostic value of antibody detection against Candida germ tube antigens in a patient with hepatosplenic candidosis;Diagnostische wertigkeit des nachweises von antikörpern gegen Candida-keimschlauchantigene bei einer patientin mit hepatolienaler candidose

Mycoses, Supplement

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-14

  Wulf, Gerald G ^a,b   Conradi, I ^a   Ruchel R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Candidosis; Hepatosplenic infection; Mycoserology

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CANDIDA ANTIGEN; CASPOFUNGIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; APLASIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; HEPATITIS; HEPATOSPLENIC CANDIDOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPLEEN DISEASE;

ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; LIVER DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SPLENIC DISEASES;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; POMACANTHUS MACULOSUS;

EID: 9644303182     PISSN: 09437312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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