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Use of Urine Antigen Testing for
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- Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology Laboratories: Antibody and antigen detection methods for dimorphic fungal infections.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2025Review
- Cutaneous lesions and early presentation of disseminated blastomycosis: A case report.SAGE open medical case reports · 2025Article
- Diagnosis of Human Endemic Mycoses Caused by Thermally Dimorphic Fungi: From Classical to Molecular Methods.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Immunologic Diagnosis of Endemic Mycoses.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Diagnostic Methods and Risk Factors for Severe Disease and Mortality in Blastomycosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Recognition of Diagnostic Gaps for Laboratory Diagnosis of Fungal Diseases: Expert Opinion from the Fungal Diagnostics Laboratories Consortium (FDLC).Journal of clinical microbiology · 2021Article
- Current and New Perspectives in the Diagnosis of Blastomycosis and Histoplasmosis.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Urine Antigen Testing is Equally Sensitive toClinical medicine & research · 2020Article
- Bedside Diagnostics for Infections: A Guide for Dermatologists.American journal of clinical dermatology · 2020Review
- Epidemiologic Survey of Legionella Urine Antigen Testing Within a Large Wisconsin-Based Health Care System.Journal of patient-centered research and reviews · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeBlastomycosis, an endemic fungal infection, mimics many other diseases. We explored the use of
methodsA total of 836 BuAg tests performed on unique patients (first test only) at one large integrated health system from June 2013 to May 2016 were retrospectively reviewed to examine test characteristics and demographic features. Of these, 100 cases from 2015, a year containing a large local blastomycosis outbreak, were randomly selected for detailed analysis.
resultsDemographics for the BuAg-tested population: mean age 54.9 years, 55.0% male, 78.9% white, 213 zip codes represented. Test results were positive in 49 of 836 (5.9%, across 43 zip codes); 16 of the 49 (32.7%) stemmed from the 2015 outbreak. BuAg-positive patients were younger than those who tested negative, even with outbreak subjects removed (48.1 vs 56.7 years, P=0.008); and Asians and males were overrepresented. Sensitivity/specificity/positive predictive value of BuAg test was 87.9%/97.9%/76.3%, respectively, based on 33 culture-positive cases. Only 2 of 20 culture-positive cases were found positive by
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