Real-time PCR detection of five prevalent bacteria causing acute meningitis: Letter to the editor

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Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 856-860

  Hedberg, Sara Thulin ^a   Olcén, Per ^a   Fredlund, Hans ^a   Mölling, Paula ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; LETTER; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 70350343601     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: 16000463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2009.02539.x     Document Type: Letter

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