Scientific article
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The detection of microbial DNA but not cultured bacteria is associated with increased mortality in patients with suspected sepsis-a prospective multi-centre European observational study

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Clinical Microbiology and Infection, vol. 23, no. 3, p. 208.e1-208.e6

Publication date

2017

Abstract

Blood culture results inadequately stratify the mortality risk in critically ill patients with sepsis. We sought to establish the prognostic significance of the presence of microbial DNA in the bloodstream of patients hospitalized with suspected sepsis.

Keywords

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Bacteria/isolation & purification
  • Bacteriological Techniques/methods
  • Blood/microbiology
  • Critical Illness
  • DNA, Bacterial/blood
  • Early Diagnosis
  • Europe
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Molecular Diagnostic Techniques/methods
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods
  • Prognosis
  • Prospective Studies
  • Risk Assessment
  • Sepsis/diagnosis/mortality
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization/methods
  • Survival Analysis
  • Young Adult

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Citation (ISO format)

O’DWYER, M J et al. The detection of microbial DNA but not cultured bacteria is associated with increased mortality in patients with suspected sepsis-a prospective multi-centre European observational study. In: Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2017, vol. 23, n° 3, p. 208.e1–208.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.11.010

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1198-743X
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