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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2024
Filed:
May. 31, 2019
B.r.a.h.m.s Gmbh, Hennigsdorf, DE;
Janin Schulte, Hennigsdorf, DE;
Anne Incamps, Saint Victor la Coste, FR;
Markus Alexander Weigand, Wettenberg, DE;
Thorsten Brenner, Mörlenbach, DE;
B.R.A.H.M.S GmbH, Hennigsdorf, DE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for the diagnosis, prognosis, risk assessment, risk stratification, monitoring, therapy guidance and/or therapy control of a fungal infection, in particular invasive fungal infections (IFI) and/or the ruling in or ruling out of an fungal infection and/or the differential diagnosis of a fungal colonization vs. an invasive fungal infection in a subject, wherein in particular the subject has an increased risk of getting or having a fungal infection and/or the subject is in a critical disease state, particularly has an existing infection and/or a state of sepsis, particularly a septic shock. The method of the invention comprises determining the level of at least one marker selected from the group of ICAM1, AHSG, CPN1, FABP1, HRG, PIGR, RAP1A, THBS1, VCL, ET-1. Furthermore, the invention relates to a diagnostic assay and a kit for carrying out the method.