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Clinical impact of a commercially available multiplex PCR system for rapid detection of pathogens in patients with presumed sepsis

BACKGROUND: Timely identification of pathogens is crucial to minimize mortality in patients with severe infections. Detection of bacterial and fungal pathogens in blood by nucleic acid amplification promises to yield results faster than blood cultures (BC). We analyzed the clinical impact of a comme...

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Autores principales: Dierkes, Christine, Ehrenstein, Boris, Siebig, Sylvia, Linde, Hans-Jörg, Reischl, Udo, Salzberger, Bernd
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19671147
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-126