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Malcolm Richardson, Michael Ellis
Hospital Medicine 61(9): 610 - 614 (Sep 2000)

Clinical diagnosis of invasive fungal infections demands a high clinical acumen, but both under- and over-diagnosis are common. Laboratory mycological tests have traditionally been limited by a range of complications. Development of methodologies to detect fungal-specific immunoglobulins, cell wall antigens and nucleic acid have improved dramatically in recent years.

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