PCR improves diagnostic yield from lung aspiration in Malawian children with radiologically confirmed pneumonia.

PCR improves diagnostic yield from lung aspiration in Malawian children with radiologically confirmed pneumonia.

Accurate data on childhood pneumonia aetiology are essential especially from regions where mortality is high, in order to inform case-management guidelines and the potential of prevention strategies such as bacterial conjugate vaccines. Yield from blood culture is low, but lung aspirate culture prov...

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Main Authors: Enitan D Carrol, Limangeni A Mankhambo, Malcolm Guiver, Daniel L Banda, IPD Study Group, Brigitte Denis, Winifred Dove, Graham Jeffers, Elizabeth M Molyneux, Malcolm E Molyneux, C Anthony Hart, Stephen M Graham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3114850?pdf=render

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