Journal article
A fast and highly sensitive blood culture PCR method for clinical detection of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi.
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BACKGROUND: Salmonella Typhi causes an estimated 21 million new cases of typhoid fever and 216,000 deaths every year. Blood culture is currently the gold standard for diagnosis of typhoid fever, but it is time-consuming and takes several days for isolation and identification of causative organisms. It is then too late to initiate proper antibiotic therapy. Serological tests have very low sensitivity and specificity, and no practical value in endemic areas. As early diagnosis of the disease a...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre Programme
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials Journal website
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 14
- Publication date:
- 2010-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1476-0711
- ISSN:
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1476-0711
- Source identifiers:
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119375
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- pubs:119375
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Zhou and Pollard
- Copyright date:
- 2010
- Notes:
- © 2010 Zhou and Pollard; 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.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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