Molecular typing of pneumococci causing parapneumonic empyema in Spanish children using multilocus sequence typing directly on pleural fluid samples [7]

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 962-963

  Obando, Ignacio ^a   Arroyo, Luis A ^a   Sánchez Tatay, David ^a   Moreno, David ^b   Hausdorff, William P ^c   Brueggemann, Angela B ^d  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; EMPYEMA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEWBORN; PLEURA FLUID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE; SPAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BODY FLUIDS; CHILD; DNA, BACTERIAL; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 33749425514     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000235684.89728.38     Document Type: Letter

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