Infections with Aspergillus Species

VT Andriole - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1993 - academic.oup.com
Invasive aspergillosis is a common infection in patients who are immunocompromised. The
diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis is difficult in the absence of confirmation by tissue biopsy …

Aspergillus infections: problems in diagnosis and treatment.

VT Andriole - Infectious agents and disease, 1996 - europepmc.org
Invasive aspergillosis is a common infection in patients who are immunocompromised,
particularly in oncology patients, patients receiving other immunosuppressive therapy, bone …

Prospects for the early diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis in the immunocompromised patient

PE Verweij, JP Donnelly, BE De Pauw… - … and Research in …, 1996 - journals.lww.com
In recent years there has been some progress in diagnosing invasive aspergillosis at an
early stage of disease. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays are more sensitive than …

Detection of invasive aspergillosis

CR Thornton - Advances in applied microbiology, 2010 - Elsevier
Invasive aspergillosis (IA) caused by the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus is a frequent and life-
threatening complication of chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation with high rates …

Aspergillus Antigen Detection in the Diagnosis of Invasive Aspergillosis

TF Patterson, P Miniter, JE Patterson… - Journal of Infectious …, 1995 - academic.oup.com
The utility of serum Aspergillus antigen in invasive aspergillosis was determined by
identifying patients with> 50 ng/mL Aspergillus carbohydrate antigen by ELISA. Patients …

Evaluation of eight antibody tests and one antigen test for the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis: Validierung von acht Antikorper‐Nachweisen und einem Antigen …

R Kappe, A Schulze‐Berge, HG Sonntag - Mycoses, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Eight Aspergillus antibody detection assays—three indirect haemagglutination assays (IHA‐
LD, IHA‐Roche, IHA‐Fumouze), three enzyme immunoassays (EIA‐IgG, EIA‐IgM, EIA‐IgA …

Up-date on diagnostic strategies of invasive aspergillosis

M Lackner, C Lass-Florl - Current pharmaceutical design, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
Invasive fungal infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in
immunosuppressed patients with fatality rates ranging from 30% to 80% in neutropenic …

Serodiagnosis of Invasive Aspergillosis in Patients with Hematologic Malignancy: Validation of the Aspergillus fumigatus Antigen Radioimmunoassay

GH Talbot, MH Weiner, SL Gerson… - Journal of Infectious …, 1987 - academic.oup.com
Six hundred sixteen sera from 79 hematology patients admitted on 152 occasions were
analyzed for validation of the Aspergillus jumigatus antigen radioimmunoassay (RIA) …

Serial monitoring ofAspergillus antigen in the early diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis. Preliminary investigations with two examples

PE Verweij, J Meis, EC Dompeling, JP Donnelly… - Infection, 1997 - Springer
A recently developed sandwich ELISA, which detects Aspergillus galactomannan, was
tested retrospectively in serial serum samples from an allogeneic bone marrow transplant …

Aspergillus serology: Have we arrived yet?

MD Richardson, ID Page - Medical mycology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Aspergillosis presents in various clinical forms, among them chronic pulmonary
aspergillosis, which is a spectrum of disease entities including aspergilloma, chronic …