Galactomannan Testing for Early Diagnosis of Exserohilum rostratum Infection
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Galactomannan testing for early diagnosis of Exserohilum rostratum infection.
Exserohilum rostratum is the most common pathogen in the current U.S. outbreak of fungal central nervous system infection, septic arthritis, and localized spinal or paraspinal infections (1). Rapid laboratory diagnosis is urgently needed but is unfortunately still limited. Only 30% of the 372 case patient specimens sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had PCR evidence su...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0095-1137
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.00955-13