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Bronchoalveolar lavage-based COVID-19 testing in patients with cancer

OBJECTIVE/BACKGROUND: A few case reports in the setting of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assays for common respiratory pathogens have shown a higher yield of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) samples than upper airway specimens in immunocompromise...

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Autores principales: Abid, Muhammad Bilal, Chhabra, Saurabh, Buchan, Blake, Graham, Mary Beth, Abedin, Sameem, Thapa, Bicky, D'Souza, Anita, George, Ben, Hamadani, Mehdi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7543702/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33058787
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hemonc.2020.09.002