Detection of bacteria and viruses in the pleural effusion of children and adults with community-acquired pneumonia

Future Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 909-915

  Marimón, José María ^a,b   Morales, María ^b   Cilla, Gustavo ^a,b   Vicente, Diego ^a,b   Pérez Trallero, Emilio ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL DONOSTIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

antigen test BINAX NOW; empyema; fast track diagnostics multiplex PCR; lyt A real time PCR; pneumococcal conjugated vaccine; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT DISEASE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BRONCHUS SECRETION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPYEMA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG ASPIRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURAL FLUID CULTURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRUS DETECTION; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUSES;

EID: 84930979708     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.14.143     Document Type: Article

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