Multiplex blood PCR in combination with blood cultures for improvement of microbiological documentation of infection in febrile neutropenia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3510-3516

  Lamoth, F ^a   Jaton, K ^a   Prod'hom, G ^a   Senn, L ^a   Bille, J ^a   Calandra, T ^a   Marchetti, O ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEVER; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; FUNGI; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; NEUTROPENIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ASPERGILLUS SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 77957815662     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00147-10     Document Type: Article

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