DNA-based testing in lung transplant recipients with suspected non-viral lower respiratory tract infection: A prospective observational study

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Drick, Nora ^a   Seeliger, Benjamin ^a   Greer, Mark ^a,b   Bollmann, Benjamin A ^a   Ziesing, Stefan ^a   Welte, Tobias ^a,b   Gottlieb, Jens ^a,b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b German Center for Lung Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

bronchoalveolar lavage; lung transplantation; polymerase chain reaction; respiratory tract infection

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTION; BURKHOLDERIA MULTIVORANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NOCARDIA CYRIACIGEORGICA INFECTION; NOCARDIOSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPEN STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; FUNGUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; FUNGI; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MYCOSES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS;

EID: 85038841793     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tid.12811     Document Type: Article

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