The etiologic diagnosis of infectious discitis is improved by amplification-based DNA analysis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2985-2994

  Lecouvet, Frédéric ^a   Irenge, Leonid ^b   Vandercam, Bernard ^a   Nzeusseu, Adrien ^a   Hamels, Sandrine ^c   Gala, Jean Luc ^b,d  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b Belgian Armed Forces   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA 16S; METICILLIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; AGED; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BRUCELLA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISKITIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA MICROARRAY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEMA GENE; FEMALE; GENBANK; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MALE; MECA GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPINE SURGERY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SIMULANS;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DISCITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES;

EID: 4444350920     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.20462     Document Type: Article

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