Use of the lightcycler septifast test for rapid etiologic diagnosis of nosocomial infection in gynecological sepsis

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 215-216

  Reyna Figueroa, J ^a,b   Ortiz, J ^a   Morales, I ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PERINATOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Gynecological sepsis; Molecular biology; Septic shock, diagnosis; SeptiFast

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; FLUCONAZOLE; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIAPHORESIS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DYSPNEA; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GYNECOLOGIC INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOPENIA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; CANDIDA; CANDIDEMIA; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 77954544578     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000318868     Document Type: Article

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