Identification of bacterial DNA in neutrocytic and non-neutrocytic cirrhotic ascites by means of a multiplex polymerase chain reaction

Liver International

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1206-1214

  Bruns, Tony ^a   Sachse, Svea ^b   Straube, Eberhard ^b   Assefa, Sentayehu ^a   Herrmann, Andreas ^a   Hagel, Stefan ^a   Lehmann, Marc ^c   Stallmach, Andreas ^a  

^a Hepatology and Infectious Disease   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c SIRS Lab GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial DNA; Bacterial translocation; Cirrhosis; Mortality; Multiplex PCR; Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASCITES FLUID ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SURVIVAL RATE; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ASCITES FLUID; GERMANY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHIL; PARACENTESIS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

ASCITIC FLUID; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; PARACENTESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 70350061884     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: 14783231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2009.02073.x     Document Type: Article

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