Current laboratory approaches to diagnosis of CNS fungal infections

Future Microbiol. 2016;11(2):175-7. doi: 10.2217/fmb.15.138. Epub 2016 Feb 5.

Authors

Jennifer L Lyons¹, Sean X Zhang^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Brigham & Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Microbiology Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.

PMID: 26849164
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.15.138

No abstract available

Keywords: (1,3) β-d-glucan; CNS; cerebrospinal fluid; fungal infection; molecular testing.

MeSH terms

Antigens, Fungal / blood
Antigens, Fungal / cerebrospinal fluid
Antigens, Fungal / isolation & purification
Central Nervous System Fungal Infections / diagnosis*
Clinical Laboratory Techniques*
Fungi / genetics
Fungi / isolation & purification*
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
Humans
Polymerase Chain Reaction

Substances

Antigens, Fungal