Clinical validation of multiplex real-time PCR assays for detection of bacterial meningitis pathogens

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 702-708

  Wang, Xin ^a   Theodore, M Jordan ^a   Mair, Raydel ^a   Trujillo Lopez, Elizabeth ^b   Du Plessis, Mignon ^c   Wolter, Nicole ^c   Baughman, Andrew L ^d   Hatcher, Cynthia ^a   Vuong, Jeni ^a   Lott, Lisa ^b   Von Gottberg, Anne ^c   Sacchi, Claudio ^e   McDonald, J Matthew ^b   Messonnier, Nancy E ^a   Mayer, Leonard W ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Lackland Air Force Base ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYND GENE; SYNF GENE; SYNG GENE;

HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84863171883     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.06087-11     Document Type: Article

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