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Polymerase chain reaction based detection of bacterial 16S rRNA gene in the cerebrospinal fluid in the diagnosis of bacterial central nervous system infection in the course of external cerebrospinal fluid drainage. Comparison with standard diagnostics currently used in clinical practice

Piotr Dąbrowski, J. Jurkiewicz, Z Czernicki, Waldemar Koszewski, Piotr Jasielski

Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska · 2017 · 10 citations · 25 references

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Abstract

Routine hospital tests do not provide rapid and efficient detection of the external drainage related bacterial CNS infection. It is justified to use several diagnostic methods simultaneously. The16S rDNA determination in CSF can increase the probability of detection of possible pathogens.

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