False-positive serum (1, 3)-β-D-glucan elevation due to intake of seaweed in a hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipient

Transpl Infect Dis. 2017 Apr;19(2). doi: 10.1111/tid.12653. Epub 2017 Feb 22.

Authors

Norisato Hashimoto¹, Takehiko Mori¹, Risa Hashida¹, Masatoshi Sakurai¹, Yuya Koda¹, Takaaki Toyama¹, Jun Kato¹, Shinichiro Okamoto¹

Affiliation

¹ Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

PMID: 28032944
DOI: 10.1111/tid.12653

No abstract available

Keywords: false-positive; invasive fungal infection; kelp; seaweed; stem cell transplant; β-D-glucan.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Antigens, Fungal / blood*
False Positive Reactions
Food
Galactose / analogs & derivatives
Glucans / blood*
Glucocorticoids / therapeutic use
Graft vs Host Disease / blood*
Graft vs Host Disease / therapy
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / adverse effects*
Humans
Invasive Fungal Infections / blood*
Invasive Fungal Infections / diagnostic imaging
Invasive Fungal Infections / etiology
Kelp / chemistry
Male
Mannans / blood
Methylprednisolone / therapeutic use
Middle Aged
Proteoglycans
Sezary Syndrome / surgery*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Transplantation Conditioning / adverse effects
beta-Glucans / blood*

Substances

Antigens, Fungal
Glucans
Glucocorticoids
Mannans
Proteoglycans
beta-Glucans
galactomannan
polysaccharide-K
laminaran
Galactose
Methylprednisolone