Comparison of conventional culture with Septifast real-time PCR for microbial pathogen detection in clinical specimens other than blood

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1774-1778

  Mencacci, Antonella ^a   Leli, Christian ^b   Cardaccia, Angela ^a   Montagna, Paolo ^a   Moretti, Amedeo ^a   Bietolini, Cristiana ^a   Meucci, Marta ^a   Perito, Stefano ^a   Cenci, Elio ^a   Bistoni, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b S CROCE E CARLE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD; EXUDATE; FUNGUS CULTURE; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPSIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BODY FLUIDS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS;

EID: 81355132811     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.034280-0     Document Type: Article

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