title: Current laboratory approaches to diagnosis of CNS fungal infections.
authors: Brigham & Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors: Jennifer L
authors: JL
authors: Lyons
authors: Microbiology Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.|Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
authors: Sean X
authors: SX
authors: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000946:Antigens, Fungal / Q000097:blood / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000302:isolation & purification; D020314:Central Nervous System Fungal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D005658:Fungi / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction
chemical_list: D000946:Antigens, Fungal
keywords: (1,3) β-d-glucan; CNS; cerebrospinal fluid; fungal infection; molecular testing