Detection of Pneumococcal DNA in Blood by Polymerase Chain Reaction for Diagnosing Pneumococcal Pneumonia in Young Children From Low- and Middle-Income Countries

BACKGROUND. We investigated the performance of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on blood in the diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia among children from 7 low- and middle-income countries. METHODS. We tested blood by PCR for the pneumococcal autolysin gene in children aged 1–59 months in the Pneumonia...

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Autores principales: Morpeth, Susan C., Deloria Knoll, Maria, Scott, J. Anthony G., Park, Daniel E., Watson, Nora L., Baggett, Henry C., Brooks, W. Abdullah, Feikin, Daniel R., Hammitt, Laura L., Howie, Stephen R. C., Kotloff, Karen L., Levine, Orin S., Madhi, Shabir A., O’Brien, Katherine L., Thea, Donald M., Adrian, Peter V., Ahmed, Dilruba, Antonio, Martin, Bunthi, Charatdao, DeLuca, Andrea N., Driscoll, Amanda J., Githua, Louis Peter, Higdon, Melissa M., Kahn, Geoff, Karani, Angela, Karron, Ruth A., Kwenda, Geoffrey, Makprasert, Sirirat, Mazumder, Razib, Moore, David P., Mwansa, James, Nyongesa, Sammy, Prosperi, Christine, Sow, Samba O., Tamboura, Boubou, Whistler, Toni, Zeger, Scott L., Murdoch, David R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28575371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix145

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28575371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix145

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