Evaluation of Pneumococcal Load in Blood by Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Pneumonia in Young Children in the PERCH Study

Detection of pneumococcus by lytA polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in blood had poor diagnostic accuracy for diagnosing pneumococcal pneumonia in children in 9 African and Asian sites. We assessed the value of blood lytA quantification in diagnosing pneumococcal pneumonia. The Pneumonia Etiology Rese...

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Autores principales:	Deloria Knoll, Maria, Morpeth, Susan C., Scott, J.Anthony G., Watson, Nora L., Park, Daniel E., Baggett, Henry C., Brooks, W. Abdullah, Feikin, Daniel R., Hammitt, Laura L., Howie, Stephen R.C., Kotloff, Karen L., Levine, Orin S., O’Brien, Katherine L., Thea, Donald M., Ahmed, Dilruba, Antonio, Martin, Awori, Juliet O., Baillie, Vicky L., Chipeta, James, Deluca, Andrea N., Dione, Michel M., Driscoll, Amanda J., Higdon, Melissa M., Jatapai, Anchalee, Karron, Ruth A., Mazumder, Razib, Moore, David P., Mwansa, James, Nyongesa, Sammy, Prosperi, Christine, Seidenberg, Phil, Siludjai, Duangkamon, Sow, Samba O., Tamboura, Boubou, Zeger, Scott L., Murdoch, David R., Madhi, Shabir A., Knoll, Maria Deloria, Fancourt, Nicholas, Fu, Wei, Kagucia, E.Wangeci, Li, Mengying, Wu, Zhenke, Crawley, Jane, Endtz, Hubert P., Zaman, Khalequ, Goswami, Doli, Hossain, Lokman, Jahan, Yasmin, Ashraf, Hasan, Ebruke, Bernard E., McLellan, Jessica, Machuka, Eunice M., Shamsul, Arifin, Zaman, Syed M.A., Mackenzie, Grant, Kamau, Alice, Kazungu, Sidi, Ominde, Micah Silaba, Tapia, Milagritos D., Sylla, Mamadou, Onwuchekwa, Uma, Kourouma, Nana, Touré, Aliou, Adrian, Peter V., Kuwanda, Locadiah, Mudau, Azwifarwi, Groome, Michelle J., Mahomed, Nasreen, Thamthitiwat, Somsak, Maloney, Susan A., Bunthi, Charatdao, Rhodes, Julia, Sawatwong, Pongpun, Akarasewi, Pasakorn, Mwananyanda, Lawrence, Wa Somwe, Somwe, Kwenda, Geoffrey, Anderson, Trevor P., Mitchell, Joanne
Formato:	Journal Article
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	Oxford University Press 2017
Materias:	evaluation diagnosis children blood polymerase chain reaction pneumonia
Acceso en línea:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/129300