Complete solutions for accurate diagnosis of serious infections
Thursday 1 February 2024
Complete solutions for accurate diagnosis of serious infections
Multiplex PCR tests offer rapid, comprehensive, highly sensitive and specific detection of a large number of pathogens and resistance genes associated with serious infectious syndromes such as bone tissue and implant infections, in which L. Prieto et all, demonstrated how the panel contributes to the most effective diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection (PJI), due to its high specificity and PPV. Likewise, Pickens. C et all, The results of the analysis of 1,016 samples showed that the lower respiratory tract infection (LRT) panel has high overall concordance percentages (93.4% positive and 98.3% negative) with respect to traditional culture and also allows the detection of 21.7% of additional pathogens.
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