Comparison of culture and PCR methods in the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis

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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Main Authors: Emel Ödemiş Başpınar, Saim Dayan, Muhammed Bekçibaşı, Recep Tekin, Celal Ayaz, Özcan Deveci, Salih Hoşoğlu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
Subjects:
Bacterial meningitis
Culture
Speed-Oligo
PCR
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822017000200232&lng=en&tlng=en

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