Community-acquired pneumonia in children due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae: Diagnostic performance of a seminested 16S rDNA-PCR

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-19

  Nadal, David ^a   Bossart, Walter ^b   Zucol, Franziska ^a   Steiner, Felicitas ^a   Berger, Christoph ^a   Lips, Ulrich ^a   Altwegg, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HUMAN; INFANT; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NOSE SMEAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROAT CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TESTS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NASOPHARYNX; PHARYNX; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035125065     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(00)00216-9     Document Type: Article

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