Evaluation of a pneumonia multiplex PCR panel for detection of bacterial respiratory tract pathogens from serial specimens collected from hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis
; 41(7): 1093-1098, 2022 Jul.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1899203
ABSTRACT
We investigated the concordance between the Unyvero Hospitalized Pneumonia (HPN) application and quantitative culture for detection of bacterial pathogens from serial lower respiratory tract (LRT) specimens collected from the same subject. Comparison of results from HPN application and culture was evaluated using 69 LRT samples from 27 subjects, using two evaluation approaches. False positive detections by the HPN application was 29% (20/69) in Evaluation I vs 10% (7/68) in Evaluation II. Additional pathogens detected by the HPN application could be confirmed in many instances by culture positivity for the same organism from previous or subsequent samples from the same subject.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia
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Respiratory Tract Infections
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Experimental Studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis
Journal subject:
Communicable Diseases
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Microbiology
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S10096-022-04466-9
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