Detection of acute childhood meningitis by PCR, culture and agglutination tests in Tabriz, Iran

Acta Medica Iranica

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 192-196

  Ghotaslou, Reza ^a,b   Farajnia, Safar ^a   Yeganeh, Fatemeh ^b   Abdoli Oskouei, Shahram ^a   Rezaee, Mohammad Ahangarzadeh ^b   Barzegar, Mohammad ^a  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bacterial meningitis; Children; PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRAN; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, HAEMOPHILUS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84858754489     PISSN: 00446025     EISSN: 17359694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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