Cryptococcal meningitis diagnostics and screening in the era of point-of-care laboratory testing

R Rajasingham, RM Wake, T Beyene… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
assay is highly sensitive and specific in cerebrospinal fluid (… of-care lateral flow assay (LFA)
for cryptococcal antigen (CrAg… serum specimens positive by Immy CrAg LFA with Immy titers …

Comparison of four assays for the detection of cryptococcal antigen

MJ Binnicker, DJ Jespersen, JE Bestrom… - Clinical and Vaccine …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
… detection of cryptococcal antigen in serum or cerebrospinal fluid (… tested by the LA test, IMMY
EIA, and IMMY LFA, and the results … by the latex agglutination test and a lateral flow assay

Low cryptococcus antigen titers as determined by lateral flow assay should be interpreted cautiously in patients without prior diagnosis of cryptococcal infection

M Dubbels, D Granger, ES Theel - Journal of Clinical …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
… During this period, serum and/or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) … The IMMY CrAg LFA is FDA
cleared for use with serum and … Briefly, serum and CSF specimens were first screened for the …

Postzone phenomenon resulting in a false-negative cerebral spinal fluid cryptococcal antigen lateral flow assay

SK Yadava, T Fazili - Aids, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis revealed white count of 32 … CrAg LFA (IMMY) is an
antigen-capture, rapid dipstick testtest strip to detect Cryptococcus antigen (CrAg) on serum, …

[HTML][HTML] Multisite validation of cryptococcal antigen lateral flow assay and quantification by laser thermal contrast

DR Boulware, MA Rolfes, R Rajasingham… - Emerging infectious …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… of-care cryptococcal antigen (CRAG) lateral flow immunochromatographic assay (LFA), we
assessed diagnostic performance of … (CRAG) in serum or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is used for …

Evaluation of the clinical performance of 2 point‐of‐care cryptococcal antigen tests in dogs and cats

KL Reagan, I McHardy… - Journal of veterinary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… Use of India ink stain on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) … (EIA) and immunochromatographic lateral
flow assays (LFAs)… shown improved sensitivity of a Cryptococcus LFA (Immy, Norman, CA) …

Laboratory verification of new commercial lateral flow assays for Cryptococcal antigen (CrAg) detection against the predicate IMMY LFA in a reference laboratory in …

LM Coetzee, DK Glencross - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
… verify the diagnostic performance of newer CrAg LFA assaysantigen of Cryptococcus
species in plasma and serum, using … on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), where increasing IMMY SQ …

Evaluation of a cryptococcal antigen lateral flow assay test for rapid detection of cryptococcal infection in HIV-negative patients in Ibadan, Nigeria

SA Fayemiwo, OB Makanjuola, J Nwaokenye… - African Journal of …, 2021 - ajol.info
… /plasma, whole blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The LFA … Table 2: Summary of the
diagnostic performance of … IMMY CrAg test that is considered to be the LFA ‘gold standard’ …

[HTML][HTML] 1. Home Sensitivity and specificity of a new cryptococcal antigen lateral flow assay in serum and cerebrospinal fluid March 19, 2013

T Vijayan - mlo-online.com
… the test performance characteristics of the cryptococcal antigen LFA in serum and CSF
specimens. … We used the keywords “cryptococcus” and “lateral flow assay” to define our search. …

Evaluation of a cryptococcal antigen lateral flow assay and cryptococcal antigen positivity at a large public hospital in Atlanta, Georgia

KRV Harrington, YF Wang, PA Rebolledo… - Open Forum …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Lateral flow immunoassay kits were donated by IMMY, Inc. … -positive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
cryptococcal antigen (CrAg) … a negative CSF CrAg lateral flow assay (LFA), blood cultures, …