Increased detection of invasive enteropathogenic bacteria in pre-incubated blood culture materials by real-time PCR in comparison with automated incubation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 616-622

  Frickmann, Hagen ^a,b   Dekker, Denise ^c   Boahen, Kennedy ^d   Acquah, Samuel ^d   Sarpong, Nimako ^d   Adu Sarkodie, Yaw ^e   Schwarz, Norbert G ^c   May, Jürgen ^c   Marks, Florian ^f   Poppert, Sven ^c   Wiemer, Dorothea F ^a   Hagen, Ralf M ^a  

^a Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Hamburg   (Germany)

^b ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^c BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

^e KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^f International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Blood culture; Enteropathogenic bacteria; Epidemiology; PCR; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CLOSTRIDIUM; DILUTION; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; MICROCOCCUS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; YERSINIA;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GHANA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84880323300     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365548.2013.777777     Document Type: Article

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