Treatment with Piperacillin‐Tazobactam and False‐PositiveAspergillusGalactomannan Antigen Test Results for Patients with Hematological Malignancies
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- 15 March 2004
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 38 (6) , 917-920
- https://doi.org/10.1086/383148
Abstract
We report the occurrence of a high rate of false-positive test results during the surveillance of hematology patients for galactomannan (GM) antigeneKeywords
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