| Literature DB >> 12734275 |
Claudine Pinel1, Hélène Fricker-Hidalgo, Bernadette Lebeau, Frédéric Garban, Rébecca Hamidfar, Pierre Ambroise-Thomas, Renée Grillot.
Abstract
The effectiveness of galactomannan detection with the Platelia test was evaluated in a prospective study of 3,327 sera from 807 patients. The specificity was 99.6% (748 of 751 cases). For the groups of patients with proven and probable invasive aspergillosis, the sensitivity was 50.0% (17 of 34 cases). The disappointing sensitivity associated with the presence of rare false-positive cases underlines the limits of this test.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12734275 PMCID: PMC154675 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2184-2186.2003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948