Inability of polymerase chain reaction, pyrosequencing, and culture of infected and uninfected site skin biopsy specimens to identify the cause of cellulitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1679-1687

  Crisp, Jonathan G ^a   Takhar, Sukhjit S ^d   Moran, Gregory J ^a,b   Krishnadasan, Anusha ^a   Dowd, Scot E ^e   Finegold, Sydney M ^c   Summanen, Paula H ^c   Talan, David A ^a,b  

^a Departments of Emergency Medicine   (United States)

^b OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e MR DNA   (United States)

Author keywords

cellulites; culture; PCR; polymerase chain reaction; pyrosequencing.

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYROSEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; UNITED STATES; AGED; BACTERIUM; BIOPSY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOPSY; CELLULITIS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84951927970     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ655     Document Type: Article

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