Comparison of culture and PCR methods in the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis
Abstract Our aim in this study is to compare the standard culture method with the multiplex PCR and the Speed-Oligo® Bacterial Meningitis Test (SO-BMT) – a hybridization-based molecular test method – during the CSF examination of the patients with the pre-diagnosis of acute bacterial meningitis. For...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia
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| Series: | Brazilian Journal of Microbiology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822017000200232&lng=en&tlng=en |