| Literature DB >> 24719434 |
Paschalis Vergidis1, Raymund R Razonable1, L Joseph Wheat2, Lynn Estes1, Angela M Caliendo3, Lindsey R Baden4, John R Wingard5, John Baddley6, Maha Assi7, Steven Norris8, Pranatharthi Chandrasekar9, Ryan Shields10, Hong Nguyen10, Alison Freifeld11, Richard Kohler12, Martin Kleiman13, Thomas J Walsh14, Chadi A Hage15.
Abstract
Piperacillin-tazobactam (PTZ) is known to cause false-positive results in the Platelia Aspergillus enzyme-linked immunoassay (EIA), due to contamination with galactomannan (GM). We tested 32 lots of PTZ and 27 serum specimens from patients receiving PTZ. GM was not detected in the lots of PTZ; one serum specimen (3.7%) was positive. PTZ formulations commonly used in the United States today appear to be a rare cause for false-positive GM results.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24719434 PMCID: PMC4042793 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00285-14
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948