Rapid diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis by antigen detection

LJ Wheat - Transplant infectious disease, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… those with invasive aspergillosis. The Platelia Aspergillus galactomannan antigenemia assay
… This review will focus on the clinical uses of the new Aspergillus antigen assay, as well as …

Aspergillus Antigen Detection in the Diagnosis of Invasive Aspergillosis

TF Patterson, P Miniter, JE Patterson… - Journal of Infectious …, 1995 - academic.oup.com
… The success ofantigen detection in this study may be due in part to increased detection of
Aspergillus antigens using polyclonal antibody made against live A. fumigatus cells. Bennett …

Laboratory diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis

WW Hope, TJ Walsh, DW Denning - The Lancet infectious diseases, 2005 - thelancet.com
… into diagnostic criteria for invasive aspergillosis, reflecting an … for invasive aspergillosis,
despite the fact that this antigen can … directed toward the detection of Aspergillus spp DNA, but a …

Detection of Aspergillus antigens associated with invasive infection

KA Haynes, JP Latge, TR Rogers - Journal of Clinical …, 1990 - Am Soc Microbiol
… used in these assays, and as a consequence the antigens that … of identifying immunodominant
Aspergillus antigens that could be … Invasive aspergillosis: antiserum for circulating antigen

Value of antigen detection in predicting invasive pulmonary aspergillosis

TR Rogers, KA Haynes, RA Barnes - The Lancet, 1990 - Elsevier
… The concentration of aspergillus antigen detected by the pAb assay is within the range
reported by others.13-17 However, the mean concentration of GM in urine (244 ng/ml) was much …

Detection of invasive aspergillosis

CR Thornton - Advances in applied microbiology, 2010 - Elsevier
Invasive aspergillosis (IA) caused by the fungus AspergillusAspergillus antigens proved
unreliable, and so focus turned to hybridoma technology and the use of monoclonal antibodies (…

AspergillusGalactomannan Detection in the Diagnosis of Invasive Aspergillosis in Cancer Patients

R Herbrecht, V Letscher-Bru, C Oprea… - Journal of Clinical …, 2002 - ascopubs.org
… In the present study, the sensitivity of the GM ELISA was clearly higher in patients without
anti-Aspergillus antibodies. As a consequence, in patients with suspected IA, serologic tests …

Utility of Aspergillus Antigen Detection in Specimens Other than Serum Specimens

RR Klont, MASH Mennink-Kersten… - Clinical Infectious …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… may provide additional evidence for invasive aspergillosis via a noninvasive … galactomannan
antigen detection in specimens other than serum for the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis. …

Galactomannan antigen detection in the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis

V Verdaguer, TJ Walsh, W Hope… - Expert review of …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
… However, availability of the double galactomannan enzyme … in the diagnosis of invasive
aspergillosis is well documented, … of invasive aspergillosis, incorporation of the galactomannan

Comparison of serum galactomannan antigen detection and competitive polymerase chain reaction for diagnosing invasive aspergillosis

S Bretagne, JM Costa, EB Delabesse… - Clinical infectious …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
… To improve the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis (IA), we … for detection of serum
galactomannan (GM) antigen. We studied … New methods of diagnosing invasive aspergillosis are …