Evaluation of the line probe assay for the rapid detection of bacterial meningitis pathogens in cerebrospinal fluid samples from children
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- 作者：Ahmet Soysal ; Demet Gedikbasi Toprak ; Salih Türkoğlu ; Mustafa Bakir
- 关键词：Line probe assay ; Bacterial meningitis ; Children ; National surveillence
- 刊名：BMC Microbiology
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：514KB
- 刊物主题：Microbiology; Biological Microscopy; Mycology; Parasitology; Virology; Life Sciences, general;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2180
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundThe 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 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from children during the multicenter national surveillance of bacterial meningitis between the years 2006 and 2009 in Turkey.