The Diagnosis of Invasive and Noninvasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis by Serum and Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Galactomannan Assay

Table 3

Analysis of factors contributing to false-positives in the BALF-GM assay.

	False positive ()	Negative ()
Age	60 (26–86)	59 (20–92)	0.609
Gender (male/female)	18/17	29/29	0.894
Host factors	15 (42.8%)	29 (50.0%)	0.367
Cefepime	5 (14.3%)	4 (6.9%)	0.289
Cefoperazone-sulbactam	7 (20.0%)	13 (22.4%)	0.784
Piperacillin-sulbactam	2 (5.7%)	2 (3.4%)	0.630
Piperacillin-tazobactam	2 (5.7%)	4 (6.9%)	1
Meropenem	4 (11.4%)	6 (10.3%)	1
Fluoroquinolones	10 (28.6%)	8 (13.8%)	0.081
Candida sp. colonization	8 (22.9%)	9 (15.5%)	0.375
Coinfected with Pneumocystis jirovecii	7 (20%)	2 (3.4%)	0.024