Detection of pneumococcal DNA in blood by polymerase chain reaction for diagnosing pneumococcal pneumonia in young children from low- and middle-income countries

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue , 2017, Pages S347-S356

  Morpeth, Susan C ^a,b,c   Knoll, Maria Deloria ^d   Scott, J Anthony G ^a,b   Park, Daniel E ^d,e   Watson, Nora L ^f   Baggett, Henry C ^g,h   Brooks, W Abdullah ^d,i   Feikin, Daniel R ^d,j   Hammitt, Laura L ^a,d   Howie, Stephen R C ^b,k,l   Kotloff, Karen L ^m   Levine, Orin S ^d,n   Madhi, Shabir A ^o   O'Brien, Katherine L ^d   Thea, Donald M ^p   Adrian, Peter V ^o   Ahmed, Dilruba ⁱ   Antonio, Martin ^b,q   Bunthi, Charatdao ^g   DeLuca, Andrea N ^d   Driscoll, Amanda J ^d   Githua, Louis Peter ^b   Higdon, Melissa M ^d   Kahn, Geoff ^d   Karani, Angela ^a   Karron, Ruth A ^d   Kwenda, Geoffrey ^r,s   Makprasert, Sirirat ^g   Mazumder, Razib ⁱ   Moore, David P ^o,t   Mwansa, James ^s,u   Nyongesa, Sammy ^a   Prosperi, Christine ^d   Sow, Samba O ^v   Tamboura, Boubou ^v   Whistler, Toni ^g,h   Zeger, Scott L ^d   Murdoch, David R ^l,w   Fancourt, Nicholas ^d   Fu, Wei ^d   Kagucia, E Wangeci ^d   Li, Mengying ^d   Wu, Zhenke ^d   Crawley, Jane ^x   Endtz, Hubert P ⁱ   Zaman, Khalequ ⁱ   Goswami, Doli ⁱ   Hossain, Lokman ⁱ   Jahan, Yasmin ⁱ   Ashraf, Hasan ⁱ   Ebruke, Bernard E ^b   McLellan, Jessica ^b   Machuka, Eunice ^b   Shamsul, Arifin ^b   Zaman, Syed M A ^b   Mackenzie, Grant ^b   Awori, Juliet O ^a   Kamau, Alice ^a   Kazungu, Sidi ^a   Ominde, Micah Silaba ^a   Tapia, Milagritos D ^m,v   Sylla, Mamadou ^m,v   Onwuchekwa, Uma ^m,v   Kourouma, Nana ^m,v   Toure, Aliou ^m,v   Baillie, Vicky L ^o   Kuwanda, Locadiah ^o   Mudau, Azwifarwi ^o   Groome, Michelle J ^o   Mahomed, Nasreen ^o   Thamthitiwat, Somsak ^g   Maloney, Susan A ^g   Rhodes, Julia ^g   Sawatwong, Pongpun ^g   Akarasewi, Pasakorn ^g   Mwananyanda, Lawrence ^p,u   Chipeta, James ^p,u   Seidenberg, Phil ^p,u   Somwe, S W V ^p,u   Anderson, Trevor P ^w   Mitchell, Joanne ^w   more..

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c MIDDLEMORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f EMMES CORPORATION   (United States)

^g Centers for Disease Control CDC Thailand Field Station   (Thailand)

^h CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

ⁱ INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^j NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^l UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁿ BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^p BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^s Zambia Center for Applied Health Research and Development   (Zambia)

^t UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^u UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

^v Centre pour le Developpement des Vaccins   (Mali)

^w CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

^x UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Blood; Diagnosis; PCR; Pneumococcus; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AUTOLYSIN; BACTERIAL DNA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; N ACETYLMURAMOYLALANINE AMIDASE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; ASIAN; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PLEURA FLUID; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POVERTY; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POVERTY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 85026432126     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix145     Document Type: Article

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