@article{52434a57e52e459eb528d43d20af8e5d,
title = "Reduction in false-positive aspergillus serum galactomannan enzyme immunoassay results associated with use of piperacillin-tazobactam in the United States",
abstract = "Piperacillin-tazobactam (PTZ) is known to cause false-positive results in the Platelia Aspergillus enzyme-linked immunoassay (EIA), due to contamination with galactomannan (GM). We tested 32 lots of PTZ and 27 serum specimens from patients receiving PTZ. GM was not detected in the lots of PTZ; one serum specimen (3.7%) wa.",
author = "Paschalis Vergidis and Razonable, {Raymund R.} and Wheat, {L. Joseph} and Lynn Estes and Caliendo, {Angela M.} and Baden, {Lindsey R.} and Wingard, {John R.} and John Baddley and Maha Assi and Steven Norris and Pranatharthi Chandrasekar and Ryan Shields and Hong Nguyen and Alison Freifeld and Richard Kohler and Martin Kleiman and Walsh, {Thomas J.} and Hage, {Chadi A.}",
year = "2014",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1128/JCM.00285-14",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "52",
pages = "2199--2201",
journal = "Journal of clinical microbiology",
issn = "0095-1137",
publisher = "American Society for Microbiology",
number = "6",
}