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Molecular detection and speciation of pathogenic Leptospira spp. in blood from patients with culture-negative leptospirosis.
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BACKGROUND: Pathogenic Leptospira spp. present in the blood of patients with leptospirosis during the first week of symptoms can be detected using culture or PCR. A proportion of patients who are positive by PCR are negative by culture. Leptospira spp. are fastidious bacteria, and we hypothesized that a false-negative culture result may represent infection with a distinct bacterial subset that fail to grow in standard culture medium. METHODS: We evaluated our hypothesis during a prospective ...
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC infectious diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 338
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
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1471-2334
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1471-2334
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221392
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- English
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- Boonsilp et al
- Copyright date:
- 2011
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- © 2011 Boonsilp et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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