Pneumocystis carinii
"An Evaluation of Four Methods for the Detection of Pneumocystis carinii in Clinical Specimens."
Published in AIDS Weekly, July 3rd, 1995
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Pathology, "We undertook a prospective evaluation of 4 methods for the detection of Pneumocystis carinii in clinical specimens and compared an indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) (Diagnostics Pasteur), and a fluorescent whitening agent (FWA) (Blankophor BA 267%, Bayer, Australia) with our standard methenamine silver (MeAg) and toluidine blue O (TB) stains. Two hundred and two specimens were received from 162 patients (133 HIV infected, 19 heart or heart-lung transplant recipients, and 10 'miscellaneous'). The specimens consisted of 132 induced sputa, 56 bronchoalveolar lavage specimens, 10 fine needle aspiration...
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