A fast and highly sensitive blood culture PCR method for clinical detection of <it>Salmonella enterica </it>serovar Typhi

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p><it>Salmonella </it>Typhi causes an estimated 21 million new cases of typhoid fever and 216,000 deaths every year. Blood culture is currently the gold standard for diagnosis of typhoid fever, but it is time-consuming and...

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Main Authors: Zhou Liqing, Pollard Andrew J
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-04-01
Series:Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
Online Access:http://www.ann-clinmicrob.com/content/9/1/14