Evaluation of pathogen detection from clinical samples by real-time polymerase chain reaction using a sepsis pathogen DNA detection kit

Yanagihara, Katsunori; Kitagawa, Yuko; Tomonaga, Masao; Tsukasaki, Kunihiro; Kohno, Shigeru; Seki, Masafumi; Sugimoto, Hisashi; Shimazu, Takeshi; Tasaki, Osamu; Matsushima, Asako; Ikeda, Yasuo; Okamoto, Shinichiro; Aikawa, Naoki; Hori, Shingo; Obara, Hideaki; Ishizaka, Akitoshi; Hasegawa, Naoki; Takeda, Junzo; Kamihira, Shimeru; Sugahara, Kazuyuki; Asari, Seishi; Murata, Mitsuru; Kobayashi, Yoshio; Ginba, Hiroyuki; Sumiyama, Yoshinobu; Kitajima, Masaki

doi:10.1186/cc9234

Public

Evaluation of pathogen detection from clinical samples by real-time polymerase chain reaction using a sepsis pathogen DNA detection kit

Published in Critical Care • Aug 24, 2010

Authors:

Katsunori Yanagihara

Yuko Kitagawa

Masao Tomonaga

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Sepsis is a serious medical condition that requires rapidly administered, appropriate antibiotic treatment. Conventional methods take three or more days for final pathogen identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. We organized a prospective observational multicenter stud...

Subject

Blood culture

Bacteremia

Medicine

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!