Journal article
Molecular diagnostic assays for the detection of common bacterial meningitis pathogens: a narrative review
- Abstract:
-
Bacterial meningitis is a major global cause of morbidity and mortality. Rapid identification of the aetiological agent of meningitis is essential for clinical and public health management and disease prevention given the wide range of pathogens that cause the clinical syndrome and the availability of vaccines that protect against some, but not all, of these. Since microbiological culture is complex, slow, and often impacted by prior antimicrobial treatment of the patient, molecular diagnosti...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Authors
Funding
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- EBioMedicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 65
- Article number:
- 103274
- Publication date:
- 2021-03-12
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-02-22
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
2352-3964
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
-
1163219
- Local pid:
- pubs:1163219
- Deposit date:
- 2021-02-23
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Diallo et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- Copyright 2021The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record