TABLE 1.
Group (no. of patients) | No. of patients with BG resulta of:
|
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Positive | Indeterminate | Negative | |
Blood donors (36) | 0 | 0 | 36 |
Blood culture positive for yeast (15) | 13 | 1 | 1 |
Blood culture positive for gram-positive cocci (15) | 11b | 1 | 3 |
Blood culture positive for gram-negative bacilli (10) | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Histoplasma antigen positive (6) | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Histoplasma antigen negative (10) | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Aspergillus galactomannan positive (32) | 31 | 0 | 1 |
Aspergillus galactomannan negative (32) | 9 | 1 | 22 |
Positive, ≥80 pg/ml; indeterminate, 60 to 79 pg/ml; negative, <60 pg/ml.
One patient had documented invasive candidiasis, based on histologic findings in a tissue biopsy.