Quantitative point-of-care pathogen detection in septicemia

Point of Care

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 107-110

  Tran, Nam K ^a   Wisner, David ^b   Albertson, Timothy ^c   Cohen, Stuart ^d   Greenhalgh, David ^e   Galante, Joseph ^b   Phan, Ho ^b   Kost, Gerald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Trauma and Emergency Surgery   (United States)

^c Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^d Surveillance and Statistics Section   (United States)

^e Burn Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical sensitivity; Blood culture; Cost effectiveness; Loop mediated isothermal amplification; Low resource; Point of care; Polymerase chain reaction, quantitative nucleic acid testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650161911     PISSN: 1533029X     EISSN: 15330303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/POC.0b013e318182994b     Document Type: Article

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