PCR detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae DNA in serum samples for pneumococcal pneumonia diagnosis

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 164-166

  Dominguez J ^a   Gali N ^a   Matas, L ^a   Pedroso, P ^a   Blanco, S ^a   Gimenez M ^a   Prat, C ^a   Sopena, N ^b   Sabria M ^b   Ausina, V ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AUTOLYSIN; BACTERIAL DNA; HEMOGLOBIN; PNEUMOLYSIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTER IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 18544365060     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1198-743x.2001.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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