Therapy with antifungals decreases the diagnostic performance of PCR for diagnosing invasive aspergillosis in bronchoalveolar lavage samples of patients with haematological malignancies

AbstractObjectives. Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a life-threatening infection in severely immunocompromised patients, especially those receiving intensive chemotherapy or undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

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Main Authors: Reinwald, Mark (Author) , Hummel, Margit (Author) , Kovalevskaya, Elena (Author) , Spiess, Birgit (Author) , Hofmann, Wolf-Karsten (Author) , Buchheidt, Dieter (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 27 June 2012
In: The journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Year: 2012, Volume: 67, Issue: 9, Pages: 2260-2267
ISSN:1460-2091
DOI:10.1093/jac/dks208
Online Access:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jac/dks208
Verlag, Volltext: https://academic.oup.com/jac/article/67/9/2260/879726
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Author Notes:Mark Reinwald, Margit Hummel, Elena Kovalevskaya, Birgit Spiess, Werner J. Heinz, Jörg Janne Vehreschild, Beate Schultheis, Stefan W. Krause, Bernd Claus, Thomas Suedhoff, Rainer Schwerdtfeger, Stefan Reuter, Michael G. Kiehl, Wolf-Karsten Hofmann and Dieter Buchheidt
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Summary:AbstractObjectives. Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a life-threatening infection in severely immunocompromised patients, especially those receiving intensive chemotherapy or undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
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ISSN:1460-2091
DOI:10.1093/jac/dks208