Specificity of a quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for the detection of invasive pneumococcal disease

Chest

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 243-244

  Kee, Cordelia ^a   Fatovich, Daniel M ^b,c   Palladino, Silvano ^d   Kay, Ian D ^d   Pryce, Todd M ^d   Flexman, James ^d   Murray, Ronan ^d   Waterer, Grant W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOLYSIN;

BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 74949139568     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.09-2185     Document Type: Letter

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