Evaluation of Human Body Fluids for the Diagnosis of Fungal Infections

Invasive fungal infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Because the etiologic agents of these infections are abundant in nature, their isolation from biopsy material or sterile body fluids is needed to document infection. This review evaluates and discu...

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Autor principal: Badiee, Parisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23984401
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/698325
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description Invasive fungal infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Because the etiologic agents of these infections are abundant in nature, their isolation from biopsy material or sterile body fluids is needed to document infection. This review evaluates and discusses different human body fluids used to diagnose fungal infections.
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spelling pubmed-37473342013-08-27 Evaluation of Human Body Fluids for the Diagnosis of Fungal Infections Badiee, Parisa Biomed Res Int Review Article Invasive fungal infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Because the etiologic agents of these infections are abundant in nature, their isolation from biopsy material or sterile body fluids is needed to document infection. This review evaluates and discusses different human body fluids used to diagnose fungal infections. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3747334/ /pubmed/23984401 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/698325 Text en Copyright © 2013 Parisa Badiee. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747334/
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