Use of a multiplex polymerase chain reaction system for enhanced bloodstream pathogen detection in thoracic transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 707-713

  Chaidaroglou, Antigoni ^a   Manoli, Eleni ^a   Marathias, Ekaterini ^a   Gkouziouta, Aggeliki ^a   Saroglou, George ^a   Alivizatos, Peter ^a   Degiannis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

bacteremia; blood PCR; bloodstream infection; fungemia; molecular diagnosis; sepsis; septicemia

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; AGED; BACTEREMIA; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879652376     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2013.04.014     Document Type: Article

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