PCR improves diagnostic yield from lung aspiration in Malawian children with radiologically confirmed pneumonia

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 culture prov...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2011-06, Vol.6 (6), p.e21042-e21042
Hauptverfasser:	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
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adenoviruses Adolescent Age Bacteria Bacterial Load Biology Blood Blood culture Blood tests Child Child, Preschool Children Children & youth Childrens health Consolidation Culture Culture Techniques Diagnosis Diagnostic systems Epidemiology Etiology Female Genomes Humans Immunology Infant Infections Influenza Lung - microbiology Lung - virology Lungs Malawi Male Medical diagnosis Medicine Microorganisms Mortality Newborn babies Pathogens Pneumonia Pneumonia - complications Polymerase Chain Reaction Prognosis Radiology Respiratory Aspiration - complications Respiratory Aspiration - diagnosis Respiratory Aspiration - microbiology Respiratory Aspiration - virology Respiratory syncytial virus Streptococcus infections Streptococcus pneumoniae Studies Vaccines Viruses
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