Current Status of Nonculture Methods for Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Infections
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Current status of nonculture methods for diagnosis of invasive fungal infections.
The incidence of invasive fungal infections has increased dramatically in recent decades, especially among immunocompromised patients. However, the diagnosis of these infections in a timely fashion is often very difficult. Conventional microbiologic and histopathologic approaches generally are neither sensitive nor specific, and they often do not detect invasive fungal infection until late in t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0893-8512,1098-6618
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.15.3.465-484.2002