A multicenter trial to compare blood culture with polymerase chain reaction in severe human sepsis

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 241-247

  Bloos, Frank ^a   Hinder, Frank ^b   Becker, Karsten ^b   Sachse, Svea ^a   Dessap, Armand Mekontso ^c   Straube, Eberhard ^a   Cattoir, Vincent ^c   Brun Buisson, Christian ^c   Reinhart, Konrad ^a   Peters, Georg ^b   Bauer, Michael ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Bacteremia diagnosis; Fungemia diagnosis; Polymerase chain reaction; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FUNGAL DNA; PROCALCITONIN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DETERMINATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77951210696     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-009-1705-z     Document Type: Article

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