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High-volume Sputum Culture for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Aspergillosis

BACKGROUND: Improved diagnostics are needed for the management of invasive fungal infections. Standard sputum cultures have a low yield in the detection of mold. Conventionally only a fraction of the specimen is cultured. We studied the performance of high-volume cultures (HVCs) where the entire spe...

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Autores principales: Vergidis, Pascalis, Moore, Caroline, Rautemaa-Richardson, Riina, Richardson, Malcolm
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631283/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1598