Narrowing of the diagnostic gap of acute gastroenteritis in children 0-6 years of age using a combination of classical and molecular techniques, delivers challenges in syndromic approach diagnostics

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2016, Pages e262-e270

  Steyer, Andrej ^a   Jevšnik, Monika ^a   Petrovec, Miroslav ^a   Pokorn, Marko ^b   Grosek, Štefan ^b   Fratnik Steyer, Adela ^a   Šoba, Barbara ^a   Uršič, Tina ^a   Kišek, Tjaša Cerar ^a   Kolenc, Marko ^a   Trkov, Marija ^c   Šparl, Petra ^d   Duraisamy, Raja ^e   Lipkin, Ian W ^e   Terzić, Sara ^b   Kolnik, Mojca ^b   Mrvič, Tatjana ^b   Kapoor, Amit ^f   Strle, Franc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c Centre for Medical Microbiology   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^e Department of Medicine   (United States)

^f OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

case control study; children; diagnostic gap; enteric pathogens; gastroenteritis; molecular methods; next generation sequencing; syndromic approach

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADENOVIRIDAE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HUMAN; HUMAN ASTROVIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTAVIRUS; SALMONELLA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR TYPING; NEWBORN; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR TYPING; PARASITES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRUSES;

EID: 84973369691     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000001208     Document Type: Article

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