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Case report: Enteral nutritional supplement as a likely cause of false-positive galactomannan testing()
The detection of galactomannan (GM) in the serum of in immunocompromised patients is widely used for the early diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis. We report a case of a false-positive GM test presumably caused by the enteral nutritional supplement given to a non-neutropenic patient with intestinal...
Autores principales: | Ng, Tong-Yong, Kang, Mei-Ling, Tan, Ban-Hock, Ngan, Cecilia Cheng-Lai |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930958/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24567893 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2013.11.004 |
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