Erratum: Detection of streptococcus pneumoniae and haemophilus influenzae type b by real-time PCR from dried blood spot samples among children with pneumonia: A useful approach for developing countries (PLoS ONE (2013) 8:10 (e76970) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076970);Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae Type B by Real-Time PCR from Dried Blood Spot Samples among Children with Pneumonia: A Useful Approach for Developing Countries

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Selva, Laura ^a   Benmessaoud, Rachid ^b,d   Lanaspa, Miguel ^b,c   Jroundi, Imane ^b,e   Moraleda, Cinta ^b,d   Acacio, Sozinho ^c   Iñigo, Melania ^a   Bastiani, Alien ^a   Monsonis, Manuel ^a   Pallares, Roman ^f   Bassat, Quique ^b,c   Muñoz Almagro, Carmen ^a  

^a HOSPITAL SANT JOAN DE DÉU   (Spain)

^b CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^c Ministérioda Saúde   (Mozambique)

^d Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica   (Morocco)

^e Ministry of Health Morocco   (Morocco)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BEXA GENE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRIED BLOOD SPOT SAMPLING; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLY GENE; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA; SCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WZG GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE SEROTYPE B; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOROCCO; MOZAMBIQUE; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOLYSINS;

EID: 84885158137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147678     Document Type: Erratum

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