Etiological diagnosis of childhood pneumonia by use of transthoracic needle aspiration and modern microbiological methods

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Abstract
Childhood pneumonia is usually treated without determining its etiology. The causative organism can be isolated from specimens of blood, empyema fluid, or lung aspirate, but this is rarely done. The potential of transthoracic needle aspiration for identification of causative agents was tested with u …
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Authors Vuori-Holopainen E;Salo E;Saxén H;Hedman K;Hyypiä T;Lahdenperä R;Leinonen M;Tarkka E;Vaara M;Peltola H;;
Journal Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Year 2002
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11803504
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biopsy 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 polymerase chain reaction community-acquired infections / microbiology bacteriological techniques needle pneumonia / diagnosis* pneumonia / microbiology streptococcus pneumoniae / isolation & purification community-acquired infections / diagnosis* pmid:11803504 doi:10.1086/338642 elina vuori-holopainen eeva salo heikki peltola community-acquired infections / pathology pneumonia / pathology

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