Development and evaluation of a novel fast broad-range 16S ribosomal DNA PCR and sequencing assay for diagnosis of bacterial infective endocarditis: multi-year experience in a large Canadian healthcare zone and a literature review

BACKGROUND: The study aimed to explore the sensitivity and specificity of a novel fast 16S rDNA PCR and sequencing assay for the improved diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE) in patients with suspected native or prosthetic heart valve (HV) infection over a multi-year period at our cardiovascular...

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Autores principales: Miller, Robert J. H., Chow, Barbara, Pillai, Dylan, Church, Deirdre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4828839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27066823
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1476-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4828839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27066823
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1476-4

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