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Value of rapid aetiological diagnosis in optimisation of antimicrobial treatment in bacterial community acquired pneumonia.

In this paper are tested respiratory samples of patients with outpatients pneumoniae. Except with standard microbiological methods, in all patients were tested urinary antigen for detection of S.pneumoniae and L.pneumophila, serological methods for detection antibodies of C. pneumoniae, and PCR for detection of S.pneumoniae. Results were compared to determine the value of rapid diagnostic methods for diagnostic of outpatient pneumoniae

community acquired pneumonia; PCR; antimicrobial treatment

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