Cryptococcal meningitis is a cause for cross-reactivity in cerebrospinal fluid assays for anti-Histoplasma, anti-Coccidioides, and anti-Blastomyces antibodies

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Antibody detection is commonly used for diagnosis of histoplasmosis, cross-reactions have been recognized due to endemic mycoses but not cryptococcosis. We observed cross-reactions in an anti-Histoplasma antibody enzyme immunoassay (EIA) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from a...

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Publié dans:Mycoses
Auteurs principaux: Bahr, Nathan C, Panackal, Anil A, Durkin, Michelle M, Smedema, Melinda L, Keown, Wesley, Davis, Thomas E, Raymond-Guillen, Luke, Park, Yoon-Dong, Marr, Kieren A, Fries, Bettina C., Williamson, Peter R., Boulware, David R, Wheat, L Joseph
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Langue:Inglês
Publié: 2019
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6380936/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30565753
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/myc.12882
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