Simultaneous detection of Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus influenzae, and Streptococcus pneumoniae in suspected cases of meningitis and septicemia using real-time PCR

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 DNA sensitivity and specificity Evaluation Study Taq Polymerase / metabolism Molecular Sequence Data Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods culture media meningitis pneumococcal / microbiology streptococcus pneumoniae / genetics streptococcus pneumoniae / isolation & purification* bacterial / diagnosis bacterial / microbiology* neisseria meningitidis / isolation & purification* bacterial / blood bacterial proteins / genetics bacterial / cerebrospinal fluid dna primers streptolysins / genetics pneumococcal / diagnosis haemophilus / diagnosis meningococcal / diagnosis neisseria meningitidis / genetics bacteremia / microbiology* haemophilus influenzae / genetics meningococcal / microbiology pmid:11283086 pmc87969 doi:10.1128/jcm.39.4.1553-1558.2001 c e corless m guiver e b kaczmarski atp-binding cassette transporters* bacteremia / diagnosis dna-binding proteins* haemophilus influenzae / isolation & purification* haemophilus / microbiology transcription factors*