Detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii in oral wash from immunosuppressed patients as a diagnostic tool

BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii (PJ) pneumonia ordinarily requires invasive procedures that could be avoided by PCR methodologies, if these could be designed with adequate cut-off values for confounding background carriage. METHODS: We designed a novel quantitative real-time PCR assa...

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Autores principales: Hviid, Cecilie Juul, Lund, Marianne, Sørensen, Allan, Ellermann- Eriksen, Svend, Jespersen, Bente, Dam, Mette Yde, Dahlerup, Jens Frederik, Benfield, Thomas, Jespersen, Sanne, Østergaard, Lars Jørgen, Laursen, Alex Lund
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5373571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28358900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174012

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