Rapid real-time nucleic acid sequence-based amplification-molecular beacon platform to detect fungal and bacterial bloodstream infections

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2067-2078

  Zhao, Yanan ^a   Park, Steven ^a   Kreiswirth, Barry N ^a   Ginocchio, Christine C ^b   Veyret, Raphaël ^c   Laayoun, Ali ^c   Troesch, Alain ^c   Perlin, David S ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b North Shore LIJ Health System Laboratories ^*  (United States)

^c BIOMÉRIEUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; RNA 28S;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FUNGAL DETECTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENUS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR BEACON; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; BLOOD; DNA PRIMERS; FUNGI; HUMANS; MYCOSES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SELF-SUSTAINED SEQUENCE REPLICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 67650079042     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02230-08     Document Type: Article

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