Molecular diagnosis of microbial aetiologies using SepsiTest™ in the daily routine of a diagnostic laboratory

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 413-418

  Haag, Heike ^a   Locher, Franziska ^a   Nolte, Oliver ^a  

^a Laboratory of Dr Brunner   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S eubacteria PCR; Endocarditis; Molecular diagnostics; Septicaemia; Universal pathogen detection

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELIZABETHKINGIA MENINGOSEPTICA; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ERYSIPELOTHRIX RUSIOPATHIAE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; MORAXELLA; MORAXELLA OSLOENSIS; NOCARDIOIDES; NONHUMAN; PARVIMONAS MICRA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TISSUE CULTURE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

16S-EUBACTERIA PCR; ENDOCARDITIS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; SEPTICAEMIA; UNIVERSAL PATHOGEN DETECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CANDIDA; CULTURE MEDIA; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 84880749396     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.04.027     Document Type: Article

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