Molecular diagnostics of sepsis-Where are we today?

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 300, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 411-413

  Bauer, Michael ^a   Reinhart, Konrad ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Critical care; Infection; Nucleic acid amplification; Polymerase chain reaction; Proteomics; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOCARDITIS; GOLD STANDARD; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; PROTEOMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PATHOLOGY, MOLECULAR; PROTEOMICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS;

EID: 77955551852     PISSN: 14384221     EISSN: 16180607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2010.04.006     Document Type: Short Survey

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