Use of a rapid test of pneumococcal colonization density to diagnose pneumococcal pneumonia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 601-609

  Albrich, W C ^a,e   Madhi, S A ^a,b   Adrian, P V ^a,b   Van Niekerk, N ^a   Mareletsi, T ^a   Cutland, C ^a,b   Wong, M ^c   Khoosal, M ^d   Karstaedt, A ^c   Zhao, P ^f   Deatly, A ^f   Sidhu, M ^f   Jansen, K U ^f   Klugman, K P ^a,g,h  

^a Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

^e CANTONAL HOSPITAL AARAU   (Switzerland)

^f Pfizervaccine Research   (United States)

^g EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD CULTURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CULTURE; STANDARD; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84856852729     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir859     Document Type: Article

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