Broad-range PCR as a supplement to culture for detection of bacterial pathogens in patients with a clinically diagnosed spinal infection

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 772-777

  Fuursted, Kurt ^a   Arpi, Magnus ^b   Lindblad, Bent Erling ^a   Pedersen, Lisbeth Nørum ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM HISTOLYTICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINGELLA KINGAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA SEQUENCE; SALMONELLA DUBLIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOSTRIDIUM HISTOLYTICUM; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DISCITIS; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; KINGELLA KINGAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPINAL DISEASES; SPONDYLITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 52349117520     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540802119994     Document Type: Article

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