Detection and serotyping of pneumococci in community acquired pneumonia patients without culture using blood and urine samples

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Elberse, Karin ^a   van Mens, Suzan ^b   Cremers, Amelieke J ^c   Meijvis, Sabine C A ^b   Vlaminckx, Bart ^b   de Jonge, Marien I ^c   Meis, Jacques F ^c,d   Blauwendraat, Cornelis ^a   van de Pol, Ingrid ^a   Schouls, Leo M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood; Community acquired pneumonia; Detection; Pneumococcus; Serotype; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Urine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CAPSULAR SEQUENCE TYPING; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INHIBITION MULTIPLEX IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLEX IMMUNOASSAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPING; SPUTUM CULTURE; URINARY ANTIGEN ASSAY; URINE CULTURE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOASSAY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; URINE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924054182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-015-0788-0     Document Type: Article

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