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- Title
Performance characteristics of the polymerase chain reaction assay to confirm clinical meningococcal disease.
- Authors
Carrol, E D; Thomson, A P; Shears, P; Gray, S J; Kaczmarski, E B; Hart, C A
- Abstract
Confirmation of clinical meningococcal disease (MCD) is essential for management of patients, contacts, and outbreaks. Blood and CSF cultures, the traditional gold standard diagnostic tests, have been adversely affected by preadmission parenteral penicillin and fewer lumbar punctures. Rapid, reliable serogroup determination without the need to grow isolates could improve laboratory confirmation of MCD.
- Publication
Archives of disease in childhood, 2000, Vol 83, Issue 3, p271
- ISSN
1468-2044
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1136/adc.83.3.271