Laboratory diagnostics of invasive fungal infections: an overview with emphasis on molecular approach

Antifungal Drug Resistance: Mechanisms, Epidemiology, and Consequences for Treatment

(2011) Michael A. Pfaller   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Invasive Mycoses: Diagnostic Challenges

(2011) Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Clinical factors associated with a Candida albicansGerm Tube Antibody positive test in Intensive Care Unit patients

(2011) Javier Pemán et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

EUCAST Technical note on Amphotericin B

(2011) C. Lass-Flörl et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Species identification of Aspergillus, Fusarium and Mucorales with direct surface analysis by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

(2011) E. De Carolis et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Clinical breakpoints for voriconazole and Candida spp. revisited: review of microbiologic, molecular, pharmacodynamic, and clinical data as they pertain to the development of species-specific interpretive criteria

(2011) Michael A. Pfaller et al.   DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Clinical breakpoints for the echinocandins and Candida revisited: Integration of molecular, clinical, and microbiological data to arrive at species-specific interpretive criteria

(2011) M.A. Pfaller et al.   DRUG RESISTANCE UPDATES

Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Disease Using Serum (1→3)-β-D-Glucan: A Bivariate Meta-Analysis

(2011) Yuan Lu et al.   INTERNAL MEDICINE

Diagnostic Accuracy of Serum 1,3-β-d-Glucan for Pneumocystis jiroveci Pneumonia, Invasive Candidiasis, and Invasive Aspergillosis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

(2011) Akira Onishi et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Opportunistic Fungi: A View to the Future

(2010) Peter G. Pappas   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES

Diagnosis of invasive fungal infections in immunocompromised children

(2010) H.J. Dornbusch et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Microorganisms direct identification from blood culture by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

(2010) L. Ferreira et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Recognition and prevention of nosocomial invasive fungal infections in the intensive care unit

(2010) Jeannina A. Smith et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Fungal infections in oncology patients: update on epidemiology, prevention, and treatment

(2010) Kieren A Marr   CURRENT OPINION IN ONCOLOGY

Wild-type MIC distributions, epidemiological cutoff values and species-specific clinical breakpoints for fluconazole and Candida: Time for harmonization of CLSI and EUCAST broth microdilution methods

(2010) M.A. Pfaller et al.   DRUG RESISTANCE UPDATES

MALDI-TOF-mass spectrometry applications in clinical microbiology

(2010) Piseth Seng et al.   Future Microbiology

Fungal Infections in Transplant and Oncology Patients

(2010) Anna K. Person et al.   INFECTIOUS DISEASE CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA

Detection and investigation of invasive mould disease

(2010) M. Cuenca-Estrella et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

High-Throughput Identification of Bacteria and Yeast by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry in Conventional Medical Microbiology Laboratories

(2010) S. Q. van Veen et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Rapid Molecular Identification of Pathogenic Yeasts by Pyrosequencing Analysis of 35 Nucleotides of Internal Transcribed Spacer 2

(2010) A. M. Borman et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Diagnosis of invasive fungal infections by a real-time panfungal PCR assay in immunocompromised pediatric patients

(2010) C Landlinger et al.   LEUKEMIA

Evaluation of nucleic acid sequence based amplification using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET-NASBA) in quantitative detection ofAspergillus18S rRNA

(2010) Chulmin Park et al.   MEDICAL MYCOLOGY

Invasive Fungal Infections in Children

(2010) Hans Jürgen Dornbusch et al.   PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

Galactomannan serves as a surrogate endpoint for outcome of pulmonary invasive aspergillosis in neutropenic hematology patients

(2009) Johan Maertens et al.   CANCER

Diagnostic Performance of the (1→3)‐β‐d‐Glucan Assay for Invasive Fungal Disease

(2009) Sophia Koo et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Trends in invasive fungal infections, with emphasis on invasive aspergillosis

(2009) Z. Erjavec et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry: a new tool in diagnostic investigation of nail disorders?

(2009) Claudia Pföhler et al.   EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY

Towards molecular diagnostics of invasive fungal infections

(2009) Sandra Preuner et al.   EXPERT REVIEW OF MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS

Species-Specific Identification of a Wide Range of Clinically Relevant Fungal Pathogens by Use of Luminex xMAP Technology

(2009) C. Landlinger et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Approaches to the Management of Invasive Fungal Infections in Hematologic Malignancy and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

(2009) Mauricette Michallet et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

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

(2009) Carlo Mengoli et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Invasive aspergillosis in chronic granulomatous disease

(2009) Brahm H. Segal et al.   MEDICAL MYCOLOGY

The changing face of epidemiology of invasive fungal disease in Europe

(2009) Cornelia Lass-Flörl   MYCOSES

In vitro susceptibility testing in fungi: a global perspective on a variety of methods

(2009) Cornelia Lass-Flörl et al.   MYCOSES

False-Positive Results by the Platelia Aspergillus Galactomannan Antigen Test for Patients Treated with Amoxicillin-Clavulanate

(2008) E. Zandijk et al.   Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Treatment of Aspergillosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

(2008) Thomas J. Walsh et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Pseudomonas aeruginosaas a Cause of 1,3‐β‐d‐Glucan Assay Reactivity

(2008) Monique A. S. H. Mennink‐Kersten et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Reappraisal of the Serum (1→3)‐β‐D‐Glucan Assay for the Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Infections—A Study Based on Autopsy Cases from 6 Years

(2008) Taminori Obayashi et al.   CLINICAL 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

Contribution of new diagnostic approaches to antifungal treatment plans in high-risk haematology patients

(2008) H. Einsele et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Changing epidemiology of systemic fungal infections

(2008) M. Richardson et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Identification of fungal species by fragment length analysis of the internally transcribed spacer 2 region

(2008) C. Landlinger et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Evaluation of Novel Broad-Range Real-Time PCR Assay for Rapid Detection of Human Pathogenic Fungi in Various Clinical Specimens

(2008) T. Vollmer et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Toll-like Receptor 4 Polymorphisms and Aspergillosis in Stem-Cell Transplantation

(2008) Pierre-Yves Bochud et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE