Utility of oropharyngeal real-time PCR for S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae for diagnosis of pneumonia in adults

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 529-536

  Bjarnason, A ^a,b   Lindh, M ^c   Westin, J ^c   Andersson, L M ^c   Baldursson, O ^b   Kristinsson, K G ^a,b   Gottfredsson, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OROPHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION SYSTEM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CULTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; URINALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROCEDURES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; OROPHARYNX; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84994472117     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: 14354373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-016-2829-z     Document Type: Article

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