Diagnostic tests for CAP: Current approaches and future perspectives

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 329-336

  Saranglao, Andy ^a   Smith, Peter R ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen studies; Blood culture; Clinical guidelines; Community acquired pneumonia; Diagnostic tests; Emperical therapy; PCR; Serologic studies; Sputum culture; Sputum Gram stain

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASPIRATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BRONCHITIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GRAM STAINING; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUNG BIOPSY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOSCOPE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; BLOOD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM;

CRYSTAL VIOLET; GRAM'S STAIN; PHENAZINE DERIVATIVE;

BLOOD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FORECASTING; GENTIAN VIOLET; HUMANS; PHENAZINES; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM;

EID: 0036020124     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737159.2.4.329     Document Type: Review

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