Table 3.
Pan-Aspergillus PCR, A. fumigatus CYP51A PCR and culture results classified by BAL GM index
| PCR assays | GM index |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| positive (≥3.0) |
intermediate (0.5 to <3.0) |
negative (<0.5) |
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Aspergillus culture |
cultured samples | culture NDa | total (%) |
Aspergillus culture |
cultured samples | culture NDa | total (%) |
Aspergillus culture |
cultured samples | culture NDa | total (%) | ||||
| neg. | pos. | neg. | pos. | neg. | pos. | ||||||||||
| Pan-Aspergillus PCR | |||||||||||||||
| negative | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 (6.8) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 (34.4) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 (50.0) |
| positive | 4 | 19 | 23 | 18 | 41 (93.2) | 6 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 21 (65.6) | 4 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 (50.0) |
| total | 6 | 19 | 25 | 19 | 44 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 16 | 32 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 18 |
| CYP51A nested PCR | |||||||||||||||
| negative | 5 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 (18.2) | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 14 (43.8) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 11 (61.1) |
| positive | 4 | 16 | 20 | 16 | 36 (81.8) | 6 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 18 (56.4) | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 (38.9) |
| total | 9 | 16 | 25 | 19 | 44 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 16 | 32 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 18 |
aCulture not done at the SSI (see Table S1, available as Supplementary data at JAC Online).