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Detection of pneumococcal DNA in blood by polymerase chain reaction for diagnosing pneumococcal pneumonia in young children From low- and middle-income countries
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Background
We investigated the performance of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on blood in the diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia among children from 7 low- and middle-income countries.
Methods
We tested blood by PCR for the pneumococcal autolysin gene in children aged 1–59 months in the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study. Children had World Health Organization–defined severe or very severe pneumonia or were age-frequency–matched community ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Publisher's version
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- 10.1093/cid/cix145
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Clinical Infectious Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 64
- Issue:
- suppl_3
- Pages:
- S347-S356
- Publication date:
- 2017-05-05
- DOI:
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1537-6591
- ISSN:
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1058-4838
- Pubs id:
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pubs:827527
- URN:
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uri:1468d4c6-9da9-4814-9db6-4ee6b1dd31f3
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uuid:1468d4c6-9da9-4814-9db6-4ee6b1dd31f3
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- pubs:827527
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- Copyright holder:
- Scott et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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