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β-d-Glucan Testing Is Overused in Patients Without Solid Organ/Stem Cell Transplant or Hematologic Malignancies
BACKGROUND: The β-d-glucan (BDG) assay aids in diagnosis of some invasive fungal infections (IFI) in at-risk patients. Due to an increase in the number of BDG tests ordered at Johns Hopkins Hospital in patients not at high risk for IFI, we evaluated the appropriateness of testing and conducted a sur...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631691/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.007 |