Clinical impact of a commercially available multiplex PCR system for rapid detection of pathogens in patients with presumed sepsis.

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Published in BMC Infect Dis on August 11, 2009

Authors

Christine Dierkes1, Boris Ehrenstein, Sylvia Siebig, Hans-Jörg Linde, Udo Reischl, Bernd Salzberger

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany. Christine.dierkes@klinik.uni-r.de

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