Clinical impact of the use of 16S rRNA sequencing method for the identification of "difficult-to-identify" bacteria in immunocompromised hosts

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 206-212

  Bharadwaj, R ^a   Swaminathan, S ^a   Salimnia, H ^a,b   Fairfax, M ^a,b   Frey, A ^a   Chandrasekar, P H ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DETROIT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Immunocompromised hosts

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RNA 16S;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GORDONIA; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; NOCARDIA; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS; RNA SEQUENCE; TSUKAMURELLA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859828858     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2011.00687.x     Document Type: Article

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