Utilidad de la prueba Aspergillus-LFD para el diagnóstico de aspergilosis: primera experiencia en Chile
The diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis remains a challenge. Detection of galactomannan in serum and bronchoalveolar lavage is a useful tool; however due to methodological and economic reasons, the test frequencies of galactomannan assays vary from daily to weekly, which constitute a risk to the patient. In this study, we aimed to evaluate and correlate the performance of the new kit Aspergillus-LFD with the GM-EIA. Aspergillus-LFD kit represents a fast, economical and simple test; showed a good performance and excellent correlation with GM-EIA kit. Given the above, the Aspergillus-LFD is emerging as an alternative to consider in the early diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis.
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| Language: | Spanish / Castilian |
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Sociedad Chilena de Infectología
2015
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-10182015000200017 |
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