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Real-time PCR has advantages over culture-based methods in identifying major airway bacterial pathogens in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Results from three clinical studies in Europe and North America
INTRODUCTION: We compared the performance of real-time PCR with culture-based methods for identifying bacteria in sputum samples from patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in three studies. METHODS: This was an exploratory analysis of sputum samples collected during an observati...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10000296/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36909845 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1098133 |