A Novel Extraction Method Combining Plasma with a Whole-Blood Fraction Shows Excellent Sensitivity and Reproducibility for Patients at High Risk for Invasive Aspergillosis

Detection and Measurement of Fungal Burden in a Guinea Pig Model of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis by Novel Quantitative Nested Real-Time PCR Compared with Galactomannan and (1,3)- -D-Glucan Detection

(2011) M. Lengerova et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evaluation of Aspergillus PCR Protocols for Testing Serum Specimens

(2011) P. Lewis White et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Probable Invasive Aspergillosis without Prespecified Radiologic Findings: Proposal for Inclusion of a New Category of Aspergillosis and Implications for Studying Novel Therapies

(2010) Marcio Nucci et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Pathogen-Specific DNA Enrichment Does Not Increase Sensitivity of PCR for Diagnosis of Invasive Aspergillosis in Neutropenic Patients

(2010) J. Springer et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Critical Stages of Extracting DNA from Aspergillus fumigatus in Whole-Blood Specimens

(2010) P. L. White et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Aspergillus PCR: One Step Closer to Standardization

(2010) P. L. White et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

False-positiveAspergillusreal-time PCR assay due to a nutritional supplement in a bone marrow transplant recipient with GVH disease

(2010) L. Millon et al.   MEDICAL MYCOLOGY

Don't throw your blood clots away: use of blood clot may improve sensitivity of PCR diagnosis in invasive aspergillosis

(2009) E McCulloch et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

Dynamics of extracellular release of Aspergillus fumigatus DNA and galactomannan during growth in blood and serum

(2009) C. O. Morton et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Use of PCR for diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis: systematic review and meta-analysis

(2009) Carlo Mengoli et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Revised Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/Invasive Fungal Infections Cooperative Group and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Mycoses Study Group (EORTC/MSG) Consensus Group

(2008) Ben De Pauw et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Clinical impact of enhanced diagnosis of invasive fungal disease in high-risk haematology and stem cell transplant patients

(2008) R A Barnes et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

Real-time PCR on the first galactomannan-positive serum sample for diagnosing invasive aspergillosis in liver transplant recipients

(2008) F. Botterel et al.   Transplant Infectious Disease