The use of multiplex real-time PCR improves the detection of the bacterial etiology of community acquired pneumonia

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 531-544

  Mustafa, M I A ^a   Al Marzooq, F ^a   How, S H ^a   Kuan, Y C ^a   Ng, T H ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM; BLOOD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALAYSIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PREVALENCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855379289     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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