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Evaluation of the line probe assay for the rapid detection of bacterial meningitis pathogens in cerebrospinal fluid samples from children

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to compare the diagnostic performance of the line probe assay (LPA) with conventional multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for Streptococcus pneumoniae as well as real-time PCR for Neisseria meningitidis and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) in cerebrospin...

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Autores principales: Soysal, Ahmet, Toprak, Demet Gedikbasi, Türkoğlu, Salih, Bakir, Mustafa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5228108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28077083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-016-0834-0