Diagnosis of upper and lower respiratory tract bacterial infections with the use of multiplex PCR assays

Diagnostics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 222-231

  Xirogianni, Athanasia ^a,b   Tsolia, Maria ^c   Voyiatzi, Aliki ^d   Sioumala, Maria ^a   Makri, Antonia ^d   Argyropoulou, Athina ^e   Paniara, Olga ^e   Markoulatos, Panayotis ^b   Kourea Kremastinou, Jenny ^a   Tzanakaki, Georgina ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^d PENTELI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ear aspirates; Molecular diagnosis; Pleural fluids

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 84891523996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20754418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics3020222     Document Type: Article

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