Multiplex PCR for rapid and improved diagnosis of bloodstream infections in liver transplant recipients

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2069-2071

  Rath, Peter Michael ^a   Saner, Fuat ^a   Paul, Andreas ^a   Lehmann, Nils ^a   Steinmann, Eike ^b   Buer, Jan ^a   Steinmanna, Joerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFECTION IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEPTIFAST TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84862082599     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00745-12     Document Type: Article

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