Real-time PCR for detection of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 in cerebrospinal fluid of human patients with meningitis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 461-467

  Nga, Tran Vu Thieu ^a   Nghia, Ho Dang Trung ^a,b,c   Tu, Le Thi Phuong ^a   Diep, To Song ^b   Mai, Nguyen Thi Hoang ^b   Chau, Tran Thi Hong ^b   Sinh, Dinh Xuan ^b   Phu, Nguyen Hoan ^a   Nga, Tran Thi Thu ^b   Chau, Nguyen Van Vinh ^a   Campbell, James ^a   Hoa, Ngo Thi ^b   Chinh, Nguyen Tran ^a   Hien, Tran Tinh ^a   Farrar, Jeremy ^a   Schultsz, Constance ^a,d  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c PHAM NGOC THACH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Viet Nam)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacterial meningitis; CSF; Real time PCR; Streptococcus suis serotype 2

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPS2J GENE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS SEROTYPE 2;

EID: 79960381014     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.12.015     Document Type: Article

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