Quantitative rt-PCR holds promise as a screening tool for patients with severe sepsis

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 502-506

  Kirkbright, Shelley ^a   Fatovich, Daniel ^a   Kee, Cordelia ^b   Kay, Ian ^c   Flexman, James ^c   Pryce, Todd M ^c   Waterer, Grant W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

16S; Bacterial load; Sepsis; Septic shock; Severity

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; EDETIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961207975     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2011.01445.x     Document Type: Article

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