Table 1.
A. fumigatus PCR results categorized by sample and stratified according to EORTC/MSG definitions
| Sample type | PCR results for samples according to EORTC/MSG definitionsa |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proven |
Probable |
Possible |
Not classified |
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| No. of samples | No. positive (%) | No. of samples | No. positive (%) | No. of samples | No. positive (%) | No. of samples | No. positive (%) | |
| Serum | 28 | 5 (18) | 265 | 65 (24.5) | 51 | 14 (27.4) | 11 | 6 (54.5) |
| Whole blood | 30 | 4 (13) | 267 | 63 (23.6) | 50 | 18 (36) | 9 | 4 (44) |
a
The total numbers of samples analyzed and the numbers and percentages of positive samples determined by the PCR technique are indicated.