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Optimising the cut-off of the Bordier Aspergillus IgG ELISA for the diagnosis of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis.

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Aspergillus IgG detection is an essential tool in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA), and is often positive in allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and Aspergillus bronchitis. The Bordier… Click to show full abstract

Aspergillus IgG detection is an essential tool in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA), and is often positive in allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and Aspergillus bronchitis. The Bordier ELISA had an 83.3% sensitivity (identical to ImmunoCap at a cut-off of 40mgA/L) and 97.3% specificity using a cut-off of 0.9 and a diagnostic accuracy of 90.9%.

Keywords: chronic pulmonary; diagnosis; pulmonary aspergillosis; aspergillosis; optimising cut; aspergillus igg

Journal Title: Journal of microbiological methods
Year Published: 2020

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