Quantitative detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae from sputum samples with real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction for etiologic diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 255-261

  Johansson, Niclas ^a,b   Kalin, Mats ^a,b   Giske, Christian G ^a   Hedlund, Jonas ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Pneumonia; Real time quantitative PCR; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNX; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPUTUM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; URINE;

EID: 39149124825     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.10.011     Document Type: Article

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