b-Glucan Antigenemia Assay for the Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Infections in Patients With Hematological Malignancies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies From the Third European Conference on Infections in Leukemia (ECIL-3)
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Frédéric Lamoth,1,a Mario Cruciani,2,a Carlo Mengoli,3 Elio Castagnola,4 Olivier Lortholary,5,6,7 Malcolm Richardson,8 and Oscar Marchetti,1 on behalf of the Third European Conference on Infections in Leukemia (ECIL-3) 1Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Switzerland; 2Center of Community Medicine and Infectious Diseases Service, San Bonifacio Hospital, Verona, 3Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnology, University of Padova, 4Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Hematology and Oncology, G. Gaslini Childrens' Hospital, Genova, Italy; 5Université Paris Descartes, Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Centre d'Infectiologie Necker-Pasteur, Paris, 6Institut Pasteur, Centre National de Référence Mycologie et Antifongiques, Unité de Mycologie Moléculaire, Paris, 7CNRS URA3012, Paris, France; and 8Mycology Reference Centre, Education and Research Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester (Wythenshawe Hospital), School of Translational Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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