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SUBMITTER: Reischies FM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4767980 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20151223 3
Galactomannan (GM) testing of urine specimens may provide important advantages, compared to serum testing, such as easy noninvasive sample collection. We evaluated a total of 632 serial urine samples from 71 patients with underlying hematological malignancies and found that the urine GM/creatinine ratio, i.e., (urine GM level × 100)/urine creatinine level, which takes urine dilution into account, reliably detected invasive aspergillosis and may be a promising diagnostic tool for patients with he ...[more]