Nucleic acid amplification tests for the diagnosis of pneumonia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1162-1170

  Murdoch, David R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LABORATORY; LEGIONELLA; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRUS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHLAMYDIA; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRUSES;

EID: 0038556795     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/374559     Document Type: Article

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