Clinical Evaluation of a Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Assay for Rapid Detection of Neisseria meningitidis in Cerebrospinal Fluid

BACKGROUND: Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) is a leading causative agent of bacterial meningitis in humans. Traditionally, meningococcal meningitis has been diagnosed by bacterial culture. However, isolation of bacteria from patients’ cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is time consuming and sometimes yields nega...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Lee, DoKyung, Kim, Eun Jin, Kilgore, Paul E., Kim, Soon Ae, Takahashi, Hideyuki, Ohnishi, Makoto, Anh, Dang Duc, Dong, Bai Qing, Kim, Jung Soo, Tomono, Jun, Miyamoto, Shigehiko, Notomi, Tsugunori, Kim, Dong Wook, Seki, Mitsuko
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4390149/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25853422
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122922
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