Use of Nasopharyngeal Aspirate for Diagnosis of Pneumocystis Pneumonia

Quantitative PCR on nasopharyngeal aspirate (NPA) can achieve high sensitivity and specificity in diagnosing Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) compared to microscopic examination of bronchoscopic specimens in a population with low HIV prevalence. Since NPA is a minimally invasive procedure, it is ideal a...

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Hoofdauteurs: To, Kelvin K. W., Wong, Sally C. Y., Xu, Ting, Poon, Rosana W. S., Mok, Ka-Yi, Chan, Jasper F. W., Cheng, Vincent C. C., Chan, Kwok-Hung, Hung, Ivan F. N., Yuen, Kwok-Yung
Formaat: Artigo
Taal:Inglês
Gepubliceerd in: American Society for Microbiology 2013
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Mycology
Online toegang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3647954/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23408690
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.03264-12
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