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SUBMITTER: Morpeth SC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5447841 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Morpeth Susan C SC Deloria Knoll Maria M Scott J Anthony G JAG Park Daniel E DE Watson Nora L NL Baggett Henry C HC Brooks W Abdullah WA Feikin Daniel R DR Hammitt Laura L LL Howie Stephen R C SRC Kotloff Karen L KL Levine Orin S OS Madhi Shabir A SA O'Brien Katherine L KL Thea Donald M DM Adrian Peter V PV Ahmed Dilruba D Antonio Martin M Bunthi Charatdao C DeLuca Andrea N AN Driscoll Amanda J AJ Githua Louis Peter LP Higdon Melissa M MM Kahn Geoff G Karani Angela A Karron Ruth A RA Kwenda Geoffrey G Makprasert Sirirat S Mazumder Razib R Moore David P DP Mwansa James J Nyongesa Sammy S Prosperi Christine C Sow Samba O SO Tamboura Boubou B Whistler Toni T Zeger Scott L SL Murdoch David R DR
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20170601 suppl_3
<h4>Background.</h4>We investigated the performance of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on blood in the diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia among children from 7 low- and middle-income countries.<h4>Methods.</h4>We tested blood by PCR for the pneumococcal autolysin gene in children aged 1-59 months in the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study. Children had World Health Organization-defined severe or very severe pneumonia or were age-frequency-matched community controls. Addit ...[more]