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Between December 2008 and January 2010, examination for P.?jirovecii in BAL fluid gave negative findings in 312 patients. Of these, 50 immunosuppressed patients with pneumonia were selected as controls (Table?2). Because the BG cut-off recommended by the manufacturer (80?pg/mL) Bafilomycin A1 was originally designed for the diagnosis of invasive fungal infections other than PJP, we first performed a ROC analysis on our data. According to the ROC analysis, the optimal BG cut-off for the diagnosis of PJP, determined with the maximum Youden index, would be >85?pg/mL. The area under the ROC curve was 0.987 (95%?CI?0.941�C0.998; p?0.0001). With this optimized cut-off, 49 of 50 patients in the PJP group tested positive for serum BG at the time of diagnosis. The negative patient had a serum BG level of 31?pg/mL. The median BG concentration in the PJP group at the time of diagnosis was 823?pg/mL (IQR?461�C4870, range?31�C38?400). The median highest FMO5 BG level during hospitalization was 1153?pg/mL (IQR?461�C7444, range?31�C38?400). In the control group, three patients tested positive (Table?3) and 47 patients were negative for serum BG. The median BG concentration in the control group was 27?pg/mL (IQR?8�C48), ranging from non-detectable to 273?pg/mL. The difference in BG levels between the PJP group and the control group was highly significant (p?www.selleckchem.com/products/pf-06463922.html and negative predictive value were 64.7% (95%?CI?36.6�C86.8%) and 99.8% (95%?CI?95.2�C99.0%), respectively. Sera from 36 patients were available in the 3?weeks prior to diagnosis. The median time of serum sampling before diagnosis was 7?days. Thirty-four of these patients (94%) already had highly elevated BG levels (792?pg/mL, IQR?316�C3557, range?122�C14?220) at an average of 5?days (IQR?1.8�C9.3, range?1�C21) before microbiological diagnosis. As expected, the shorter the time interval between sample date and diagnosis date, the higher the serum BG levels. Within the last 10?days before diagnosis, the median BG level was 831?pg/mL (n?=?26, IQR?541�C4202, range?122�C14?220). In the period between day?10 and day?21 before diagnosis, the median BG concentration was 269?pg/mL (n?=?8, IQR?154�C656, range?127�C6460). For the two patients who had negative results, serum samples were drawn at day?19 and day?20 before diagnosis. To determine the prognostic value of BG levels at diagnosis (BGDIAGNOSIS) and of maximum BG levels during hospitalization (BGMAX), the patients were divided into groups based on the median, the tertile and the quartile BG levels. The cumulative mortality of the respective groups was then compared. However, no statistically significant differences in mortality were found between the groups (Table?4).