PCR improves diagnostic yield from lung aspiration in malawian children with radiologically confirmed pneumonia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Carrol, Enitan D ^a,b   Mankhambo, Limangeni A ^b   Guiver, Malcolm ^c   Banda, Daniel L ^b   Denis, Brigitte ^b   Dove, Winifred ^a   Jeffers, Graham ^a   Molyneux, Elizabeth M ^b   Molyneux, Malcolm E ^b   Hart, C Anthony ^a   Graham, Stephen M ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BOCAVIRUS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG ASPIRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; ACID ASPIRATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; LUNG; MICROBIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ADENOVIRIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN BOCAVIRUS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; BACTERIAL LOAD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LUNG; MALAWI; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; RADIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION;

EID: 79958799827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021042     Document Type: Article

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