Rectal swab sampling followed by an enrichment culture-based real-time PCR assay to detect Salmonella enterocolitis in children

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1421-1425

  Lin, L H ^a,b   Tsai, C Y ^a,c   Hung, M H ^a   Fang, Y T ^a   Ling, Q D ^a,c  

^a CATHAY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Enrichment culture; Molecular detection; Real time PCR; Rectal swab; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ENTEROCOLITIS; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTAL SWAB; SALMONELLA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMEAR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA;

EID: 80051883670     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03450.x     Document Type: Article

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