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Team:Goettingen/project overview/current tools
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Project
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Background
Current diagnostic tools
The diagnostic methods employed to diagnose fungal infections vary in performance and depend on the patient symptoms. The following table is a reproduction of the one presented at the Fungal Infection Thrust.
| Fungal problem | Diagnostic performance | |||||
| Microscopy | Agar culture | Xrays/scans | Antigen | Blood antibody | DNA detection | |
+++ |
+++ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
- |
+++ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+++ |
|
Candida abdominal |
+ |
+++ |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
++ |
+++ |
+ |
+++ |
- |
- |
|
+ |
+ |
+++ |
++ |
- |
++ |
|
+ |
+ |
+++ |
- |
+++ |
++ |
|
+ |
+ |
++ |
- |
+++ |
+ |
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+ |
++ |
++ |
- |
+++ |
- |
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+ |
++ |
+ |
++ |
- |
- |
|
+++ |
+ |
++ |
- |
- |
- |
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Resource: http://www.fungalinfectiontrust.org/diagnosis.htm
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