PCR Improves Diagnostic Yield from Lung Aspiration in Malawian Children with Radiologically Confirmed Pneumonia

BACKGROUND: Accurate data on childhood pneumonia aetiology are essential especially from regions where mortality is high, in order to inform case-management guidelines and the potential of prevention strategies such as bacterial conjugate vaccines. Yield from blood culture is low, but lung aspirate...

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Autores principales: Carrol, Enitan D., Mankhambo, Limangeni A., Guiver, Malcolm, Banda, Daniel L., Denis, Brigitte, Dove, Winifred, Jeffers, Graham, Molyneux, Elizabeth M., Molyneux, Malcolm E., Hart, C. Anthony, Graham, Stephen M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21695128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021042

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21695128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021042

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