Evaluation of microbial bacterial and fungal diversity in cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection.

Cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection can be recalcitrant. Recurrence is common despite appropriate therapy for the pathogens identified by culture. Improved diagnostic and therapeutic approaches are required, and culture-independent molecular approaches to cerebrospinal fluid shunt infections have no...

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Main Authors: Tamara D Simon, Christopher E Pope, Samuel R Browd, Jeffrey G Ojemann, Jay Riva-Cambrin, Nicole Mayer-Hamblett, Margaret Rosenfeld, Danielle M Zerr, Lucas Hoffman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3885436?pdf=render