Realtime PCR Is More Sensitive than Multiplex PCR for Diagnosis and Serotyping in Children with Culture Negative Pneumococcal Invasive Disease

BACKGROUND: Pneumococcal serotyping is usually performed by Quellung reaction, considered the gold standard test. However the method cannot be used on culture-negative samples. Molecular methods can be a useful alternative. The aim of the study was to evaluate the use of Multiplex-sequential-PCR (MS...

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Autores principales: Azzari, Chiara, Moriondo, Maria, Indolfi, Giuseppe, Cortimiglia, Martina, Canessa, Clementina, Becciolini, Laura, Lippi, Francesca, de Martino, Maurizio, Resti, Massimo
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2824814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20174571
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009282

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2824814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20174571
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009282

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