Development of a real-time PCR assay for the rapid detection of Acinetobacter baumannii from whole blood samples

New Microbiologica

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 251-257

  De Gregorio, Eliana ^a   Roscetto, Emanuela ^a   Iula, Vita Dora ^a   Martinucci, Marianna ^a   Zarrilli, Raffaele ^a   Di Nocera, Pier Paolo ^a   Catania, Maria Rosaria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacterial bloodstream infection; Blood culture; Molecular diagnostics; Sepsis; TaqMan real time PCR

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; BLOOD; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; BLOOD; HUMANS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84930980219     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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