Importance of operational factors in the reproducibility of Aspergillus galactomannan enzyme immune assay.

BACKGROUND:The Platelia Aspergillus Ag assay (Bio-Rad) is designed for detecting Aspergillus galactomannan (GM) and is widely used for diagnosing invasive aspergillosis but is hampered by variable occurrences of unreproducible positive results. Frequency and origin of these unreproducible results ha...

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Main Authors: Nicolas Guigue, Samuel Lardeux, Alexandre Alanio, Samia Hamane, Marc Tabouret, Stéphane Bretagne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4393237?pdf=render