Percent positive rate of Lyme real-time polymerase chain reaction in blood, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, and tissue

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• 作者：Ngolela Esther Babady ; Lynne M. Sloan ; Emily A. Vetter ; Robin Patel ; Matthew J. Binnicker
• 关键词：Lyme ; PCR ; Blood ; Cerebrospinal fluid ; Synovial fluid
• 刊名：Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：December 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：62
• 期：4
• 页码：464-466
• 全文大小：98 K

文摘

We performed a retrospective review of 23,777 specimens tested by our Lyme real-time polymerase chain reaction assay to determine the percent positive rates by specimen source. The percent positive rates were highest in synovial fluid (6.4 % ) and tissue (6.5 % ), and lowest in blood (0.1 % ) and cerebrospinal fluid (0.09 % ).