Identification of early biomarkers in a rabbit model of primary Candida pneumonia

Abstract Background Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogen, but since it also belongs to the normal fungal flora, positive sputum culture as the solely basis for the diagnosis of invasive Candida albicans pneumonia can easily lead to excessive antifungal therapy. Therefore, identification of...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gang Lu, Chen Wang, Chunrong Wu, Lei Yan, Jianguo Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-08-01
Series:BMC Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-019-4320-9