Open AccessPneumocystis PCR: It Is Time to Make PCR the Test of Choice
Author(s) -
Laura J. Doyle,
Sherilynn Vogel,
Gary W. Procop
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
open forum infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.546
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2328-8957
DOI - 10.1093/ofid/ofx193
Subject(s) - medicine , cytology , grocott's methenamine silver stain , staining , pathology , pneumocystis jirovecii , polymerase chain reaction , pneumocystis carinii , surgical pathology , biology , pneumonia , biochemistry , gene
PCR was the most sensitive method for the detection of and should be considered the diagnostic test of choice. Correlation with clinical and radiologic findings affords discrimination of early true disease from the far rarer instances of colonization.
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