Is detection of bacterial DNA in ascitic fluid of clinical relevance?

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1487-1494

  Appenrodt, Beate ^a   Lehmann, Lutz E ^a,b   Thyssen, Lydia ^a   Gentemann, Martin ^a   Rabe, Christian ^a   Molitor, Ernst ^a   Trebicka, Jonel ^a   Stüber, Frank ^a,b   Sauerbruch, Tilman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ascites; bacterial DNA; bacterial translocation; liver cirrhosis; spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ASCITIC FLUID; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SURVIVAL RATE; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78349281513     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEG.0b013e328340c43a     Document Type: Article

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