Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction for detection of bacteria: wanted, dead or alive?

Crit Care Med. 2005 Nov;33(11):2720; author reply 2720-1. doi: 10.1097/01.ccm.0000187090.91547.4d.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Bacteria / isolation & purification*
  • DNA, Bacterial / classification
  • Humans
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / diagnosis
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / etiology*
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / microbiology
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods*
  • Respiration, Artificial / adverse effects*

Substances

  • DNA, Bacterial