Polymerase chain reaction, with sequencing, as a diagnostic tool in culture-negative bacterial meningitis

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 92-96

  Dicuonzo, Giordano ^a,c   Lorino, Giulia ^a   Lilli, Daniela ^a   Rivanera, Daniela ^a   Guarino, Paola ^b   Angeletti, Silvia ^a   Gherardi, Giovanni ^a   Filadoro, Francesco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAN GIOVANNI ADDOLORATA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Fondazione Policlinico Universitario AgostinoGemelli IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; 65 kDa protein gene; Hybridization; Meningitis; PCR; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 65; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR HYBRIDIZATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033021568     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1999.tb00109.x     Document Type: Article

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