Polymerase chain reaction for the rapid detection of cerebrospinal fluid shunt or ventriculostomy infections

Neurosurgery

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1237-1242

  Banks, Jason T ^a   Bharara, Suman ^a   Tubbs, R Shane ^a   Wolff, Charles L ^a   Gillespie, G Yancey ^a   Markert, James M ^a   Blount, Jeffrey P ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; Complications; Diversion; Infection; Surgery; Tests

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DNA; GLUCOSE; NUCLEASE; PROTEIN; RNA 16S;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; FEVER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LETHARGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NECK; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RIGIDITY; SHUNT INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADULT; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 29244487108     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000186038.98817.72     Document Type: Article

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