The SSS revolution in fungal diagnostics: speed, simplicity and sensitivity

J Baker, DW Denning - British Medical Bulletin, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Introduction Fungal disease has historically presented a diagnostic challenge due to its
often non-specific clinical presentations, relative infrequency and reliance on insensitive and …

Update from the laboratory: clinical identification and susceptibility testing of fungi and trends in antifungal resistance

MT Albataineh, DA Sutton, AW Fothergill… - Infectious Disease …, 2016 - id.theclinics.com
Invasive fungal infections are associated with significant morbidity and mortality, because
these infections are often difficult to diagnosis and treat. Fungi historically associated with …

Effects of blood sample anticoagulants on lateral flow assays using luminescent photon-upconverting and Eu (III) nanoparticle reporters

E Juntunen, R Arppe, L Kalliomäki, T Salminen… - Analytical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Many quantitative and semiquantitative lateral flow (LF) assays have been introduced for
clinical analytes such as biomarkers for cancer or acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Various …

Evaluation of lateral flow immunochromatographic assay for diagnostic accuracy of cryptococcosis

LM Xie, GL Lin, HN Dong, YX Liao, YL Liu, JF Qin… - BMC Infectious …, 2020 - Springer
Background Cryptococcus is a conditional pathogenic fungus causing cryptococcosis, which
is one of the most serious fungal diseases faced by humans. Lateral flow …

Looking for fungi in all the right places: screening for cryptococcal disease and other AIDS-related mycoses among patients with advanced HIV disease

G Greene, C Sriruttan, T Le, T Chiller… - Current Opinion in HIV …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Although several operational barriers to programme effectiveness still need to be
addressed, the utility of CrAg screening using inexpensive and accurate antigen assays has …

[HTML][HTML] Pulmonary cryptococcosis in non-HIV-infected individuals: HRCT characteristics in 58 patients

G Xinqiang, Z Hongxia, H Wenmin, W Hui - Medicine, 2024 - journals.lww.com
The aim of this study is to delineate the distinctive high-resolution computed tomography
features of pulmonary cryptococcosis in non-HIV-infected patients. This retrospective …

Identification of Cryptococcus antigen in human immunodeficiency virus‐positive Turkish patients by using the Dynamiker® lateral flow assay

E Karaman, M Ilkit, F Kuşçu - Mycoses, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cryptococcus neoformans causes life‐threatening meningoencephalitis, particularly in
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)‐positive individuals with low CD4 levels (< 100 …

Diagnosis and Epidemiology of Serious Fungal Infections in Ghana

BK Ocansey - 2023 - search.proquest.com
In many resource-limited settings, advances in diagnosis and epidemiology of serious
fungal infections (SFIs), which generally excludes superficial fungal infections, are yet to be …

Biographical Feature: Karen C. Carroll, MD

E Munson - Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
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Yeasts

SX Zhang, NP Wiederhold - Diagnostic Microbiology of the …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Yeasts represent one of the growth forms of fungi. They are unicellular, and reproduce
mostly by budding or less often by fission. Most medically important yeasts originate from the …