High pneumococcal DNA loads are associated with mortality in Malawian children with invasive pneumococcal disease

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Abstract
Pneumococcal DNA loads are associated with plasma cytokine concentrations, and are higher in meningitis than in pneumonia. High blood and CSF pneumococcal DNA loads are associated with a fatal outcome.
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Authors Carrol ED;Guiver M;Nkhoma S;Mankhambo LA;Marsh J;Balmer P;Banda DL;Jeffers G; ;White SA;Molyneux EM;Molyneux ME;Smyth RL;Hart CA;;
Journal the pediatric infectious disease journal
Year 2007
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17468652
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National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine research support non-u.s. gov't female male adolescent Child Infant Prospective Studies preschool DNA cytokines / blood pneumonia meningitis pneumococcal / microbiology streptococcus pneumoniae / genetics streptococcus pneumoniae / isolation & purification* bacterial / analysis* pneumococcal vaccines / immunology bacterial / blood bacterial / cerebrospinal fluid pmid:17468652 pmc2810843 doi:10.1097/01.inf.0000260253.22994.61 enitan d carrol malcolm guiver c anthony hart cytokines / cerebrospinal fluid malawi / epidemiology pneumococcal / mortality*

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