Metabolic profiling for detection of Staphylococcus aureus infection and antibiotic resistance.

Due to slow diagnostics, physicians must optimize antibiotic therapies based on clinical evaluation of patients without specific information on causative bacteria. We have investigated metabolomic analysis of blood for the detection of acute bacterial infection and early differentiation between inef...

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Main Authors: Henrik Antti, Anna Fahlgren, Elin Näsström, Konstantinos Kouremenos, Jonas Sundén-Cullberg, Yongzhi Guo, Thomas Moritz, Hans Wolf-Watz, Anders Johansson, Maria Fallman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3581498?pdf=render