Accuracy of IgM antibody testing, FQ-PCR and culture in laboratory diagnosis of acute infection by Mycoplasma pneumoniae in adults and adolescents with community-acquired pneumonia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Qu, Jiuxin ^a   Gu, Li ^a   Wu, Jiang ^b   Dong, Jianping ^c   Pu, Zenghui ^d   Gao, Yan ^e   Hu, Ming ^f   Zhang, Yongxiang ^g   Gao, Feng ^h   Cao, Bin ^a   Wang, Chen ⁱ  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Beijing Centre for Diseases Prevention and Control   (China)

^c Beijing Haidian Hospital   (China)

^d YanTai Yu Huang Ding Hospital   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

^f CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g Beijing Da Xing hospital   (China)

^h WANGJING HOSPITAL   (China)

ⁱ BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Adult; Community acquired pneumonia; Diagnosis; Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 84875940978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-172     Document Type: Article

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