The enhanced pneumococcal LAMP assay: A clinical tool for the diagnosis of meningitis due to Streptococcus pneumoniae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Kim, Dong Wook ^a,b   Kilgore, Paul E ^b,c   Kim, Eun Jin ^a,b   Kim, Soon Ae ^b   Anh, Dang Duc ^d   Dong, Bai Qing ^e   Kim, Jung Soo ^f   Seki, Mitsuko ^g  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^e Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region   (China)

^f Chonbuk National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^g NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; LYTA GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLY GENE; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84865012873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042954     Document Type: Article

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