Assessment of a real-time PCR method to detect human non-cryptococcal fungal meningitis

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 381-384

  Badiee, Parisa ^a   Alborzi, Abdolvahab ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aspergillus spp.; Candida albicans; Early diagnosis; Fungal meningitis; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDIASIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASPERGILLUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, FUNGAL; MIDDLE AGED; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 80355138039     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: 17353947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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