False-Positive Results Caused by Cotton Swabs in Commercial Aspergillus Antigen Latex Agglutination Test
- 8 February 2002
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 21 (2) , 130-132
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-001-0671-3
Abstract
While testing for Aspergillus spp. using a commercially available latex agglutination test on a brain biopsy wrapped in a cotton swab, false-positive results were obtained. Subsequent application of the test on lavage samples obtained using cotton and synthetic swabs resulted positive with the cotton swabs only. This suggests that epitopes cross-reactive with Aspergillus galactomannan may be present in cotton.Keywords
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