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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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2017

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Susan C. Morpeth, Maria Deloria Knoll, J. Anthony G. Scott, Daniel E. Park, Nora L. Watson, Henry C. Baggett, W. Abdullah Brooks, Daniel R. Feikin, Laura L. Hammitt, Stephen R. C. Howie,
Clinical Infectious Diseases

Abstract

The utility of pneumococcal PCR on blood for diagnosing childhood pneumococcal pneumonia in the 7 low- and middle-income countries studied is limited by poor specificity and by poor sensitivity among MCPP cases.

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