Diagnosis of candidemia
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no good antibody or antigen test
diagnosis rests with culture of blood or sterile body fluids
Utility of β-glucan detection in invasive fungal detection (not used in US, but used in other countries)
measure amount of circulating β-glucan, which is present in all fungi, but specificity is actually not that bad, 90%
other fungi will of course be detected
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