Comparative Analysis of the Wako β-Glucan Test and the Fungitell Assay for Diagnosis of Candidemia and Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Comparative Analysis of the Wako β-Glucan Test and the Fungitell Assay for Diagnosis of Candidemia and Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia

Published:2018-09 Issue:9 Volume:56 Page:
ISSN:0095-1137
Container-title:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Clin Microbiol

Author:

Friedrich Ricarda¹,Rappold Elfriede¹,Bogdan Christian²,Held Jürgen¹²

Affiliation:

1. Department für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

2. Mikrobiologisches Institut-Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen und Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Abstract

(1→3)-β- d -Glucan (BDG) is a biomarker for invasive fungal disease. Until now, all BDG data in the Western Hemisphere were obtained using the Fungitell assay (FA).

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JCM.00464-18

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