Improved Diagnosis of Acute Pulmonary Histoplasmosis by Combining Antigen and Antibody Detection

Background. Acute pulmonary histoplasmosis can be severe, especially following heavy inoculum exposure. Rapid diagnosis is critical and often possible by detection of antigen, but this test may be falsely negative in 17% of such cases. Antibody detection by enzyme immunoassay (EIA) may increase sens...

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Autores principales: Richer, Sarah M., Smedema, Melinda L., Durkin, Michelle M., Herman, Katie M., Hage, Chadi A., Fuller, Deanna, Wheat, L. Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4787609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26797210
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciw007

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4787609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26797210
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciw007

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