Are serum cytokines sensitive and specific enough to prognosticate in aspergillosis?

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Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis. J Infect Dis. 2011.

. 2011 May 15;203(10):1503; author reply 1504.

doi: 10.1093/infdis/jir050.

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Early proinflammatory cytokines and C‐reactive protein trends as predictors of outcome in invasive Aspergillosis.
Chai L, Netea MG, Teerenstra S, Earnest A, Vonk AG, Schlamm HT, Herbrecht R, Troke PF, Kullberg BJ. Chai L, et al. J Infect Dis. 2010 Nov 1;202(9):1454-62. doi: 10.1086/656527. J Infect Dis. 2010. PMID: 20879853

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