Etiologic Diagnosis of Adult Bacterial Pneumonia by Culture and PCR Applied to Respiratory Tract Samples
- 1 February 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 44 (2), 643-645
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.44.2.643-645.2006
Abstract
Respiratory culture and multiplex PCR for Streptococcus pneumoniae , Haemophilus influenzae , Mycoplasma pneumoniae , and Chlamydophila pneumoniae were applied to sputum, nasopharyngeal swabs, and nasopharyngeal aspirates from 235 adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia and 113 controls. Both culture and multiplex PCR performed well with the different samples and appear to be useful as diagnostic tools.Keywords
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