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. 2005 Dec;43(12):5957–5962. doi: 10.1128/JCM.43.12.5957-5962.2005

TABLE 1.

Fungitell BG assay results for various patient groups

Group (no. of patients) No. of patients with BG resulta of:
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
a

Positive, ≥80 pg/ml; indeterminate, 60 to 79 pg/ml; negative, <60 pg/ml.

b

One patient had documented invasive candidiasis, based on histologic findings in a tissue biopsy.