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. 2003 May;41(5):2184-6.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2184-2186.2003.

Detection of circulating Aspergillus fumigatus galactomannan: value and limits of the Platelia test for diagnosing invasive aspergillosis

Claudine Pinel  1 , Hélène Fricker-Hidalgo, Bernadette Lebeau, Frédéric Garban, Rébecca Hamidfar, Pierre Ambroise-Thomas, Renée Grillot
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Detection of circulating Aspergillus fumigatus galactomannan: value and limits of the Platelia test for diagnosing invasive aspergillosis

Claudine Pinel et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2003 May.

Abstract

The effectiveness of galactomannan detection with the Platelia test was evaluated in a prospective study of 3,327 sera from 807 patients. The specificity was 99.6% (748 of 751 cases). For the groups of patients with proven and probable invasive aspergillosis, the sensitivity was 50.0% (17 of 34 cases). The disappointing sensitivity associated with the presence of rare false-positive cases underlines the limits of this test.

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