Syndrome Evaluation System Contributes to Higher and Faster Pathogen Identification with Superior Clinical Correlation as Compared to Conventional Cultures in Patients with Empyema and Parapneumonic Effusions

Background & Objective: Pleural fluid culture is the standard of diagnosis for infectious etiology in parapneumonic effusion and empyema. However, the sensitivity is poor in tertiary centers due to prior antibiotic therapy. Newer nonculture-based molecular diagnostics are emerging as effective a...

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Main Authors: Natarajan Rajagopalan, Arun H Mahadevaiah, Toshit Sapkal, Dipanjan Chakraborty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2019-01-01
Series:The Journal of Association of Chest Physicians
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Online Access:http://www.jacpjournal.org/article.asp?issn=2320-8775;year=2019;volume=7;issue=1;spage=10;epage=17;aulast=Rajagopalan

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